The Board of Trustees exists to serve a Christ-centered school under clear spiritual authority. Our governance is not borrowed from corporate practice and baptized afterward; it is shaped from the ground up by the conviction that the school belongs to the Lord and is stewarded on His behalf.
One board, one voice, one vision
The board speaks with one voice. Disagreement and debate happen in the room; once a decision is reached, the board carries it together. Trustees do not undermine the body in private conversation, do not lobby individual administrators, and do not represent personal positions as the position of the board. This is not a matter of corporate politeness. It is a matter of unity in Christ and faithfulness to the authority under which the school operates.
One vision means we are not a coalition of interest groups. We are a single body, called to set direction for one school. The vision is fixed: a Christ-centered education that forms students in truth, character, and competence. Strategy, programs, and budgets serve that vision; they do not replace it.
Trusteeship under spiritual authority
A Christian school operates under the convictions of a sponsoring church, association, or statement of faith. Trustees are not autonomous. They are commissioned. Their authority is delegated and their accountability runs back to that spiritual authority and, ultimately, to Christ.
The Head of School and the Board
The board governs; the Head of School leads the daily work of the school. The board hires, supports, evaluates, and, when necessary, replaces the Head of School. It does not run the school. Trustees who try to manage the school replace the Head of School in practice without doing so in name. That weakens both offices and confuses the staff.
Three duties
Trustees carry three legal and moral duties: care, loyalty, and obedience. Care requires us to be prepared, to read the materials, to attend the meetings, and to ask the harder question. Loyalty requires us to act in the school's interest, not our own and not a faction's. Obedience requires us to operate within the school's mission, bylaws, and applicable law.
The posture of a trustee
A trustee is first a Christian, then a parent or alum or church member, then a governor. The posture is one of stewardship and prayer. We are not owners. We are stewards of a school entrusted to us for a season, and we will hand it on to those who come after.