Course Length: 12 hour/s (2 days)

Course Cost: $375.00 Members

                     $425.00 Non-members

Course Prerequisites: None

Course Number: PI212

Course Description: This course includes parliamentary procedures that provide processes through which policy meetings can work out satisfactory solutions to the greatest number of question in the least amount of time.  It will help you with detail and complexity to make policy meetings go smoothly when everyone is in agreement.  It offers participants the core contents that can penetrate more deeply in Head Start culture.  You will learn:

• Roles of the President and Secretary

• How to handle Quorum

• The Standard Order of Business

• Adjournment, Recess and Standing at Ease

• Handling Motions

•  Rules for Debate

• Purpose and Construction of Amendments

• Postponing and Referring to a Committee

• Voting

• Nominations and Elections