[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: ILA non-election

[Diane Barone]

Hello to Ken, Reading Hall of Fame Member, NCRE list, and CELT,

I so wish that Ken would have contacted me or Bill Teale before sending out this message. However, that did not happen so let me respond. Before responding to the issues of the ballot for voting. I will respond to Ken’s other issues.

Bill Teale and I work together as Vice President and President of ILA. We work closely with members and with ILA staff. We see this collaboration as the best way to support and lead ILA.

Yes we do have virtual meetings. On these meetings we see all board members on the screen and they work well. We also have face-to-face meetings. This balance is appropriate for 2016 with the ability to use technology to support our work.

We do not see the ILA convention as a trade show. Once again we see it as a collaboration of teachers, researchers, principals, and others such as vendors.

I hope these answers help, now let me help with this year’s nomination. I know Ken that you are concerned so let me address your concerns.

First of all the Board is confident that the Nominating Committee did indeed fulfill its charges. The Committee thoroughly reviewed every nominated candidate and provided the best candidates for the board election.

ILA has not moved to a non-competitive election by choice. We are coming to realize and prepared to address key critical issues related to the nominating process for the board. Chief among them is generating a diverse slate (which we are very weak on this year, but better than other years), more greatly representative of an international organization and a better process for the stewarding and recruitment of those interested in governance.

Not only do we expect that members will be concerned about one member running for VP, we expect that some members are and should be concerned about (once again) the lack of diversity on our slate. We had only one non-US member nominated, a person with the very finest credentials, whom we pursued and encouraged throughout the process, only to have this person withdraw their nomination right before completion of the Nominating Committee’s work for personal reasons. We were all devastated, because this person was one of our very strongest candidates.

We rely annually on members to either self-nominate or to nominate others for our election slate. The way our process is set up, any member can nominate someone and as is often the case, people are nominated randomly – meaning that the person doing the nominating does not necessarily consult with the person they are nominating.  Because of this, nominees may not agree to actually run. That is what happened this year: there were three people nominated for Vice President, and two of them were not consulted in advance. When ILA reached out to encourage them to take the next steps, they declined their nomination, which everyone has a right to do. In both cases, each of the individuals had compelling personal reasons for not accepting the nomination (and both indicated they may very well accept the nomination in the future).

What is concerning to us about this is that we could actually find ourselves in a situation in which we have no candidates, especially if we continue to operate the nominating process this way.  For this reason, we are examining the process and are making improvements to it to ensure a solid slate of candidates to carry out the governance of the organization in the future, including the Board taking a far more active role in the identification and recruitment of members to volunteer positions. We want to move the recruitment process to be a year-round (not election-seasonal) process of identifying, stewarding and recruiting leaders to board and governance involvement. We also must keep in mind the enormous, challenging work in front of the governing board as it relates to ILA’s strategic direction and recruit and orient board members with a clear understanding of their role and responsibilities.

We appreciate your long-term investment in ILA as a committed member and we hope you will join us in identifying and nurturing the best candidates to run for the Board.

Thanks again for the email.

Sincerely,

Diane Barone


On Apr 4, 2016, at 5:59 AM, Ken Goodman <kgoodman at u.arizona.edu<mailto:kgoodman at u.arizona.edu>> wrote:

I am personally refusing to vote for the ILA non-election.
There us no choice for vice-president and an insufficient number of candidates for board members.
I see this as a shift in power from board control to staff control of this imporotant organization.
Adding to that the board now holding virtual meetings and ILA seems to be shifting from a professional organization
to a trade show run for the convenience of publishers.

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