Board agrees to limit public use of granular dashboard data and clarifies communications protocols
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The board discussed MSBA guidance on team-building, open-meeting-law risks, a process for routing staff questions through the superintendent, and agreed that fine-grained, building- or classroom-level dashboard data should remain non-public while the board retains access for oversight.
Board Chair Amber Cameron walked the board through MSBA's high-performance board recommendations at the Feb. 10 work session and led a broader discussion about communication protocols, open-meeting-law compliance and the district's data dashboard.
Members agreed that the board's role is system-level oversight and that administration should handle implementation details. Several members urged keeping granular, building- or classroom-level dashboard metrics out of public distribution to avoid misinterpretation or harming staff relationships, while preserving that data for internal board oversight and for administrators to diagnose aberrations. "I don't think we should be sharing out our non-public facing data," one member said.
The board also agreed to a communication protocol: individual board members should send substantive requests to Superintendent Michael (cc the chair and vice chair) so administration can triage staff workloads. The chair said she will coordinate media responses addressed to the board and that routine public emails receive automatic acknowledgement while more substantive answers will be prepared by the superintendent's office.
Other procedural topics addressed included RSVPs for public events, committee assignments and scheduling monthly work sessions plus a single regular business meeting each month. The board agreed to return committee assignments and the handbook draft for further consideration.