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Winners of eBOARD Awards of Excellence Demonstrate Best Practice in Use of Administrative Technology
School districts recognized for how they use cloud-based technology to align work, save
money and demonstrate accountability and transparency
June 17, 2011- Atlanta - eBOARDsolutions announces the winners for the first annual eBOARD
Awards of Excellence. The program was designed to recognize and showcase best practices in school governance and leadership in the areas of strategic plan management, meetings
administration and internal and external communications. School systems who participated used a self-assessment tool which scored their use of the eBOARD technology as well as
submitted responses to questions <http://eboardsolutions.com/LinkClick.aspx?link=269&tabid=274>
about how they use this collaborative technology to be more transparent and accountable, align the work of the organization back to their strategic plans and become a more efficient and
effective organization allowing them to focus on student success in their school system.
Winners were recognized today in Savannah, Georgia at the Georgia School Boards
Association's Summer Conference and Delegate Assembly which speaker list includes Diane Ravitch, noted author and education reformer, Nathan Deal, Governor of the state of
Georgia, Michael Thurman, attorney and author and Mary Broderick, President of the National School Boards Association <http://nsba.org/> . One focus
of the conference was the "Vision for Public Education <http://www.visionforpubliced.org/> ." and the recommendations
stemming from the work of the planning team.
The 2011 eBOARD Awards of Excellence winners are as follows:
Best Overall Use of eBOARD
* 1st Barrow County Schools
* 2nd (tie) City Schools of Decatur
* 2nd (tie) Richmond County Schools
* 3rd Jeff Davis County Schools
Best Use of Meetings Module
* 1st City Schools of Decatur
* 2nd (tie) Barrow County Schools
* 2nd (tie) Forsyth County Schools
* 3rd Georgia Department of Education
Best Use of Strategic Plan Module
* 1st Fayette County Schools
* 2nd Barrow County Schools
* 3rd Richmond County Schools
Dr. Wanda Creel, Superintendent of Barrow county Schools, comments, "
We are thrilled to have received the Awards of Excellence for 2011. eBOARD has
provided Barrow County Schools with a collaborative communications and monitoring tool that ensures that our systemic process is aligned at the district level and cascaded to each
individual school. The suite of eBOARD modules allows us to not only post but also monitor and report on our system and school strategic plans, system and school Balanced
Scorecards, meeting agendas and minutes for a wide variety of district, departmental, school, and grade level meetings. Our leadership team has worked very hard and we are
humbled to see our work recognized publicly."
Mark Willis, COO of eBOARDsolutions, adds, "We salute Barrow County
Schools and all of the other winners for being leaders in the area of effective governance and administrative technology. These districts have taken full-advantage of eBOARD to
ensure that they are aligning their work, streamlining internal processes, saving money, and being transparent with the students and communities they serve. We are proud to
recognize them for their hard work and are excited to share their stories with others."
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