Board Communication

You walk into the board room with a presentation full of teacher testimonials, workshop attendance numbers, and enthusiasm about your new professional development initiative.  Fifteen minutes later, you're fielding questions about ROI, measurable outcomes, and budget justification that make you feel like you're speaking an entirely different language than the one you prepared for. If this scenario feels familiar, you're not alone. Directors of Professional Development across

It's 6:47 PM on a Tuesday, and you're still at your desk. Tomorrow morning's board meeting looms like a storm cloud. Somewhere in the maze of open browser tabs —your district LMS, three different Google Sheets, last quarter's observation data, and that survey platform you swear you'll learn to use properly— lies the story of your professional development program's success. Or failure. You're honestly not sure which narrative the data will tell because right now, it's telling