INTERESTED IN SERVING?

If you are interested in serving on the Board of Trustees, please click here to apply.

Board members come from many backgrounds. Typical backgrounds that add value and perspective to the Board include experience in finance, marketing, construction, risk management or law but there are many other skill/knowledge areas relevant to the school’s work.

The Board is currently seeking Association members with experience in fields like human resources, fundraising/development, and strategic planning. We are also seeking association members with strong social networks within both ASW and our host community.

The most important personal characteristics include, among others, the ability to ask good questions, to maintain a broad and long-term perspective, to put the best interests of the School ahead of personal interests, and a willingness to work constructively with others as a team member.

If you feel you can contribute to the benefit of the school community, you can follow one of the following paths:

Run for election

To be eligible, candidates must be parents or guardians of a current student or students who will remain enrolled at ASW for the following two academic years. Board elections are held in May. Please see the 'Elections' tab on this page for more details. [Note: ASW employees and family members of employees are not eligible for election to the Board of Trustees.]

Apply for board appointment

Interested individuals should contact the Board Chair to express interest in serving on the Board. The Board of Trustees normally appoints new members for one or two year appointments. The appointment process for the following school year is completed by the end of June.

Apply for committee membership

Interested individuals may be selected to support one of the following committees: Finance, Governance, Human Resources, or Strategic Planning (ad hoc). Committees meet monthly. Non-Trustee committee members are typically selected for their expertise in a particular subject matter area, and serves as ad hoc, non-voting members.

Like earlier this year, I’ll be leading a session on School and non-profit board membership. If you have an interest in a position on the ASW board, as a leader in PTO, or if you are looking to serve on other boards in the future, this training will help provide some of the key understandings associated with good governance in a non-profit setting.  The content of this training has been expanded to also include insights into ASW specifically.  We’ll explore selected ASW Board documents and will give some insight into ASW structures and policy.

If you would like to participate, you can sign up by clicking here: 

 https://goo.gl/forms/cfjli5MvNnwzNiNs2

Similar to last year, the BoT is also seeking candidates as new Trustees (U.S. citizens and Non-U.S. citizens) who will begin serving in the 2020-2021 school year. This process, overseen by the BoT Governance Committee, begins now with a call for both applications for appointment and nominations for election through a unified form to be completed by March 30 for appointments and by April 17 for elections. The link to that form is here:

https://goo.gl/forms/3Vg4LemowAyfBTNA3

The Board is currently seeking community members with experience in fields like human resources, fundraising, development, and strategic planning. We are also seeking members with strong social networks within both ASW and our host community. Most importantly, the BoT needs parents who are committed to the values, mission, and vision of our community and the long-term wellbeing of our school and its students.

You can find more information about the BoT on this page.

Minutes and other documents of the board can be found by clicking on My ASW in the upper right and logging into PowerSchool. Then go to Quicklinks and all board documents and other important community resources are available there.

Details of our school's important strategic planning work can be found in the documents below.

Governance Committee

The purpose of the Governance Committee is to provide oversight of the Board’s governance practices with the objective of ensuring good governance, accountability, and transparency. The Committee is responsible for organizing elections and appointments to the Board of Trustees, inducting new Trustees, ensuring that the Board of Trustees assesses its own performance annually, maintaining the Bylaws and Policy Manual.

Chair: Artur Banaszak 

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Finance Committee

The Finance Committee is responsible for developing annual budget guidance for Board approval, reviewing annual budget execution, monitoring income and expenses throughout the year, ensuring that the question of risk management is properly managed, and nominating, for Board approval, an independent auditing firm to audit the School’s financial statement and accounts.

Chair: Chris Biedermann 

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Monitoring and Risk Management Committee

The Monitoring and Risk Management Committee has a role to develop and manage a review cycle of school policy to consider the utility and functional viability of all adopted policies. With human resources being the most critical asset of the school, the Committee focuses on monitoring policies ensuring a high level of employee satisfaction and well-being.  The Committee is also responsible for managing Governmental Relations, risk assessment, mitigation monitoring, non-financial audits of systems and procedures, and accreditations.

Chair: Massimo Merighi

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Advancement Committee

The Advancement Committee supports and oversees formal strategic planning and the areas of admissions, marketing, and communications. It focuses on broad issues with a multi-year consequence including endowments and scholarship programs. The Committee enables the Board to be more involved in external outreach including further fostering of contacts with the local community, developing corporate partnerships, and extending alumni contacts.  The Committee oversees the outcomes of strategic planning and development of new strategic initiatives. 

Chair: Elin Witschas Thomassen 

 

The ASW Board of Trustees deals with issues relating to the school on a strategic level. If you have an issue or question regarding school finances, the strategic plan, long-term building goals, or school governance, you can email the Board of Trustees directly at aswtrustees@aswarsaw.org .

To participate in one of the Board committees, contact Board Chair, Mr. Gregory Liddle, through the ASW's Chief Administrative Officer: bwaliszkiewicz@aswarsaw.org

Please note: If your question or issue has to do with the operations of the school, please go through the procedure listed in the school handbooks, contacting the teacher first, if possible and then moving up the organizational chain of command.