Board performance review on deck for Chilliwack school trustees – The Progress

Chilliwack school board highlights issues with cooperation and governance

The Chilliwack School Board has issued itself a report card, to be reviewed at its final meeting of the school year, June 11.

They have found that while they are “proficient” at inclusion, they are just “emerging” at things like governance and working effectively.

Trustees have been going through a process of self-assessment, as directed by their own policy and supported by the B.C. School Trustees Association. They focused on two components for “self-reflection” out of six components supplied in the BCSTA’s framework — “governance, legislation, roles and responsibilities,” and “planning for student success.”

They filled out surveys and were led by a facilitator over at two in-camera meetings, and the results are reported in a scale of emerging, developing and proficient. Overall, the board agrees they are “developing,” and the sole area marked as “proficient” in their report is in “supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion.”