• 2025 Onboarding Guide - New Board Member Onboarding Guide - districts can customize this guide to include specific information about your district and your board. Topics include board roles and responsibilities, governing tools, highlights of laws new board members should know and more.

• New Board Member Onboarding Year at a Glance

• Common Educational Abbreviations and Acronyms

• Nepotism Chart of Relations

• Sunshine Law Book

• Tuckman Stages of Group Development

Recording of 2025 Get Ready for New Board Members: Tips for Onboarding Webinar. WATCH HERE
Learn how you can provide onboarding support for your new board members to help them become an effective member of your team as soon as possible.  Board members, superintendents and board secretaries from School of the Osage, Rolla and Joplin share how they onboard new members. Find out about MSBA resources you can use in your onboarding sessions.  Don’t leave your new board members in the dark! 

• Tuckman Stages of Group Development

• Joplin First Orientation Meeting  

• Joplin Second Orientation Meeting Why We Are Here

• Joplin Third Session Budget and Finance

• Joplin Third Session Operations

• Joplin Fourth Session Human Resources 

• Joplin Fourth Session Communications and Engagement

• Joplin New Board Member Orientation Effectiveness Survey

• Nepotism Chart of Relations

• MSBA New Board Member Orientation Year at a Glance