About
Board of Trustees

Overview and Board Governance

Summary of Board Responsibilities

Casady School's Board of Trustees is the governing body for the School. The board's primary responsibilities include building and developing a strategic plan, serving as fiduciary of the School, and maintaining and employing the Head of School.

NAIS Principles for Good Practice

(revised and adopted by the NAIS Board of Trustees on March 24, 2004 and printed in the Trustee Handbook Ninth Edition):
  • The board adopts a clear statement of the School's mission, vision, and strategic goals and establishes policies and plans consistent with this statement.
  • The board reviews and maintains appropriate bylaws that conform to legal requirements, including duties of loyalty, obedience, and care.
  • The board assures that the School and the board operate in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, minimizing exposure to legal action. The board creates a conflict-of-interest policy that is reviewed with, and signed by, individual trustees annually.
  • The board accepts accountability for both the financial stability and the financial future of the institution, engaging in strategic financial planning, assuming primary responsibility for the preservation of capital assts and endowments, overseeing operating budgets, and participating actively in fundraising.
  • The board selects, supports, nurtures, evaluates, and sets appropriate compensation for the Head of School.
  • The board recognizes that its primary work and focus are long-range and strategic.
  • The board undertakes formal strategic planning on a periodic basis, sets annual goals related to the plan, and conducts annual written evaluations for the School, the Head of School, and the board itself.
  • The board keeps full and accurate records of its meetings, committees, and policies and communicates its decisions widely, while keeping its deliberations confidential.
  • Board composition reflects the strategic expertise, resources, and perspectives (past, present, future) needed to achieve the mission and strategic objectives of the School.
  • The board works to ensure all of its members are actively involved in the work of the board and its committees.
  • As leader of the school community, the board engages proactively with the Head of School in cultivating and maintaining good relations with School constituents as well as the broader community and exhibits best practices relevant to equity and justice.
  • The board is committed to a program of professional development that includes annual new-trustee orientation, ongoing trustee education and evaluation, and board-leadership succession planning.
9500 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73120     |     Phone: (405) 749-3100
Casady School is an independent, co-educational, college preparatory, Episcopal day school serving students in pre-k-12. Educating Mind, Body, and Spirit.
Casady School is a PreK-12, independent, college preparatory Episcopal day school committed to deeper-level learning. Casady School welcomes a student body that reflects the diversity of the world around us and therefore does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, nationality, or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletics, and other school-administered programs generally accorded or made available to students at the School.