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March/April 2003

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IASB Publications
2921 Baker Drive
Springfield 62703
217/528-9688, extension 1131

• Climbing the learning curve: Rookie schooled on board service by David A. Watson
  A native of Illinois, now a school board member in Texas, gives new board members an idea of what he wishes he would have known when he was first elected.

• Social capital: Missing link in school finance debates? by Todd A. Berry
  While focusing on budgets and dollars, school boards often overlook valuable resources available through good community relationships.

• Arts education: Expendable or priceless? by Linda Dawson
  When faced with a deficit, school boards often look first to the arts as a target for budget cuts. But creative outlets in the arts may keep some students in school and help others be more successful in academics.
  Sidebar: Finding a way to support the arts
  Sidebar: Without the arts, are students shortchanged?

• Practical PR - Ideas to make your arts program priceless by Jennifer Bialobok
  An effective arts program can reach far beyond the walls and hallways of a school. The arts can help create an image for a school and increase pride throughout the community.

• The future of adolescence: Lengthening ladders to adulthood by Reed Larson
  As the platform of knowledge and skills to attain success as an adult moves higher, young people are being asked to defer their entrance to adulthood for increasingly longer periods of time.

• Citizens committees: Who needs them? by Donald J. Behnke
  A reprint from 27 years ago speaks the same language as community engagement does today.

• Ask the staff - District Employment could create problems answered by Melinda Selbee