Cossba

10/08/2026

🚨 CALLING ALL STATE SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATIONS AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS! 🚨

E-Rate needs your voice.

For 30 years, E-Rate has helped schools and libraries afford the internet connectivity they need to serve students and communities. Now, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reviewing the program, and changes could have a significant impact on schools across the country.

📣 This is the time to speak up.

✅ Submit comments to the FCC explaining how E-Rate positively impacts your schools and students.

✅ Contact your members of Congress and ask them to help protect E-Rate.

✅ Use COSSBA’s E-Rate Toolkit for helpful resources, information about the program and sample letters to make advocacy easier.

Your story matters. Your voice matters. Take action today to Protect E-Rate! 🌐🏫

Our E-Rate Toolkit is linked in the comments!

10/06/2026

👂 Listening is the first step toward meaningful action.

Schools have more data than ever, but numbers don’t always tell the whole story. How can school leaders better understand the experiences, perspectives and priorities of their students and communities?

Join the Unified Boards Alliance for Listening First: From Student and Community Voice to Meaningful Action, featuring Chris McNutt of The Human Restoration Project.

📅 Available NOW https://www.cossba.org/webinar-series
💻 Prerecorded — watch when it works for you!

Learn how authentic listening, empathy-centered conversations and qualitative “thick data” can add valuable context to traditional measures and help turn community voice into informed action.

Watch now at 👂💬 Listen. Learn. Act.

Student and community voices can provide insights that numbers alone simply can’t capture.

Join the Unified Boards Alliance for Listening First: From Student and Community Voice to Meaningful Action, featuring Chris McNutt of The Human Restoration Project.

📅 Available Sept. 30
💻 Prerecorded — watch on your schedule!

Discover how meaningful listening and “thick data” can help school leaders better understand their communities and turn what they hear into meaningful action. 🎯

Watch now at https://www.cossba.org/webinar-series

10/05/2026

10/05/2026

Where is COSSBA today? Indianapolis at the Indiana Association of School Boards Annual Conference. Stop by our booth to learn about COSSBA and Julie Feasel will be presenting on Federal Advocacy at 3:30 in room 140!

10/04/2026

🚨 CALLING ALL STATE SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATIONS AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS! 🚨

E-Rate needs your voice.

For 30 years, E-Rate has helped schools and libraries afford the internet connectivity they need to serve students and communities. Now, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reviewing the program, and changes could have a significant impact on schools across the country.

📣 This is the time to speak up.

✅ Submit comments to the FCC explaining how E-Rate positively impacts your schools and students.

✅ Contact your members of Congress and ask them to help protect E-Rate.

✅ Use COSSBA’s E-Rate Toolkit for helpful resources, information about the program and sample letters to make advocacy easier.

Your story matters. Your voice matters. Take action today to Protect E-Rate! 🌐🏫

Access the E-Rate toolkit here: https://www.cossba.org/eratetoolkit

10/02/2026

The Federal Communications Commission wants to make drastic changes to the E-Rate program, which provides discounted rates to schools and libraries to connect to the internet. School districts need internet access to run day-to-day operations. To see what a typical school day looks like online, watch this video.

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10/02/2026

🎧 Listening First: From Student and Community Voice to Meaningful Action

Schools collect more data than ever, but numbers don’t always tell the whole story.

Join Chris McNutt from The Human Restoration Project for a COSSBA webinar exploring how meaningful listening can help education leaders better understand the experiences, perspectives and needs of students and their communities.

Learn how qualitative “thick data” can add important context to traditional measures through stories, values and perspectives that may be missing from dashboards and surveys. You’ll also hear about Polaris Education, a human-first platform designed to help schools turn conversations into meaningful feedback and action.

▶️ The webinar is available now! Watch today and discover how listening can lead to meaningful action. https://vimeo.com/1232073266

10/01/2026

📣 Deadline Extended! You now have until Oct. 6 to submit a proposal for the 2027 COSSBA National Conference and Unified Boards Alliance (UBA) Preconference Day!

🎤 Share Your Expertise. Inspire Public Education Leaders.

We’re looking for school board members, superintendents, education leaders, practitioners and partners to share practical strategies, innovative ideas and proven practices that can help strengthen:

✅ School board governance
✅ Leadership
✅ Advocacy
✅ Public education
✅ Student success

Whether you have an innovative approach, a successful program or practical strategies that other boards and districts can put into action, we want to hear from you!

📅 New deadline: Oct. 6 https://www.cossba.org/2027cfp

Submit your proposal and help shape meaningful conversations at the 2027 COSSBA National Conference and UBA Preconference Day!

09/29/2026

The formula for economic development is simple: Support Public Education!

09/28/2026

📣 Deadline Extended! You now have until Oct. 6 to submit a proposal for the 2027 COSSBA National Conference and Unified Boards Alliance (UBA) Preconference Day!

🎤 Share Your Expertise. Inspire Public Education Leaders.

We’re looking for school board members, superintendents, education leaders, practitioners and partners to share practical strategies, innovative ideas and proven practices that can help strengthen:

✅ School board governance
✅ Leadership
✅ Advocacy
✅ Public education
✅ Student success

Whether you have an innovative approach, a successful program or practical strategies that other boards and districts can put into action, we want to hear from you!

📅 New deadline: Oct. 6

Submit your proposal and help shape meaningful conversations at the 2027 COSSBA National Conference and UBA Preconference.

https://www.cossba.org/2027cfp