To assist you in this process the New Zealand School Trustees Association in partnership with the Ministry of Education have produced : A Board's Guide to Effective Succession Planning
You can download the Guide and associated material for use in your community forums:
Succession planning booklet (2010)
Over Heads: A Sneak Preview of Effective Trusteeship (in PowerPoint)
Slide Show: A Sneak Preview of Effective Trusteeship (in PowerPoint)
Power Point Handout (in pdf)
Effective succession planning can greatly assist your board and your school through a strategic, systematic, and deliberate effort to ensure readiness, recruitment and retention of trustees.
This succession planning booklet will guide your board through the key prompts towards board preparedness for the trustee elections.