There are two student members on the executive board, one high school junior and one senior, chosen by the student council. Each student member also is a non-voting participant in school board meetings. The organization includes four advisory committees, which are counterparts to school board committees. There are committees for curriculum, personnel, building and grounds, and planning. Each advisory committee includes a school board member.
Community residents can participate in as many advisory committees as they wish.
As a business person, Sue Hinck has little use for talk without action. As a citizen of the Ellsworth Community School District, Hinck wanted the local Great Schools initiative to be more than an opportunity for dialogue about public education. We re not a complaining group. We re a group that offers solutions to school problems sometimes to the administration, sometimes to the board, and sometimes we can get things done ourselves. She wanted results.