This year’s New Member Institute, originally scheduled for June 5-6, 2020, has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are exploring options to deliver similar professional development training to new state board members virtually at a later date.

When:  June 5 -6, 2020 (adjourn by noon on Saturday)

Where: Alexandria, Virginia

Hotel Information: Alexandrian Hotel, 480 King St, Alexandria, VA 22314, (703) 549-6080. 

2020 agenda is forthcoming, State board of education members who attend NASBE’s New Member Institute will:

• Learn what it takes to be a successful and productive member of a state board of education.
• Build the skills needed to do the job: parliamentary procedure, communicating in the era of social media, working with the state legislature and other key stakeholders, working with the news media, working with fellow board members.
• Discuss common policy concerns and issues, and discover real-world examples of how state boards of education are successfully addressing them.
• Establish working relationships with new state board of education members from across the country.
• Gain an understanding of NASBE’s resources and how the organization can help state boards in their important work.

NASBE will assume responsibility for airfare and other travel costs (up to $500), hotel, and registration costs for a maximum of two new board members from each dues-paying state to attend the New Member Institute. Additional board members may attend at their state’s expense ($500 for new board members from a dues-paying state; $550 for veteran board members from a dues-paying state; $950 for board members from non-NASBE member states, plus travel and lodging expenses). Direct questions to Sharon Cannon at sharon.cannon@nasbe.org.