We are elected to the Board of Trustees to govern our local education system. The Board is responsible for ensuring that children receive an appropriate education, but it needs goals, plans, and policies in place in order to define our role as governors and our employee's role as educator. The Board of a corporation, whether it be a school board, a municipality, or a large corporation, only has one employee, the CEO, or in our case, the Superintendent. The CEO then oversees the employees and ensures the Board's goals and plans are met. The Board and the Superintendent work together to achieve the goals and plans using respective policies to make decisions. The Board of Trustees has a Board Policy Manual that it uses to make its decisions. There are only a couple of dozen policies within our local St. Paul Education Board Policy Manual. On the other hand, the Superintendent uses hundreds of Administrative Procedures in order to ensure our school system runs effectively. These policies and administrative procedures are constantly reviewed and revised, when necessary, to adjust to our evolving society.
Through its Strategic Planning process, the Board sets its Mission, Vision and Values statements that guide all of its decisions. The St. Paul Education Board of Trustees underwent a community consultation process in order to complete a full review and update of its Mission, Vision and Values statements a couple of years ago. Students, staff, parents, trustees and community members from across the division came together to answer questions and discuss the who we are as a division, as well as the future of St. Paul Education.
Our updated statements are included in Policy 1 of the Board Policy Manual and are as follows:
These are St. Paul Education's Foundation Statements and guide the Board of Trustees in all of its decisions. The remainder of board's policies can be found here.
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