How Healthy Is Your Board Governance?

Take the Charter School Governance Health Assessment to identify your board’s strengths, uncover governance gaps, and get the tools you need to build a stronger board–leader partnership.

Most charter school governance problems are not caused by bad intentions.

They are caused by:

  • unclear roles between the board and school leader

  • weak oversight of key priorities

  • communication breakdowns

  • lack of systems for accountability

Over time, these issues create tension, confusion, and drift.

The good news is that governance can be strengthened.

When you complete the Governance Health Assessment, you will receive:

  • A practical tool to evaluate your board’s governance health

  • A PDF resource you can use with your board or leadership team

  • Greater clarity around trust, roles, accountability, and board effectiveness

  • A next-step framework for strengthening governance practices

Created by Dr. Tom Miller, charter school governance trainer, former board member, former state authorizer, and approved Georgia State Board of Education governance trainer.

Dr. Miller has trained more than 1,000 charter school boards and leadership teams and has helped schools strengthen governance, leadership alignment, and strategic focus.

Ready to evaluate your board’s governance health?

Enter your name and email below to access the online Governance Health Assessment and download the companion PDF and resources.

How It Works

As a consultant and researcher I  have uncovered the 10 key performance indicators that make the best schools highly effective over sustained periods of time. 

You’ll simply choose
agree or disagree to each substandard listed under each of the 10 Indicators of High Performance: Sustained Mission, Goals, Education Plan, Staff Development, Operations, Culture, Parent Engagement, Finances and Governance. There are 51 statements in total. 

When you’re finished, you’ll instantly be given a unique report card of your results.

You can use our Wheel of Success to create a visual of your results. Then you’ll have the clarity you need to identify where to set better goals, a vision for the best results, and a starting point for your journey. 

The assessment will take 7-10 minutes.

*You will not receive a score if you do not finish. 

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