Greetings! Welcome to the website of
Rolland B
What does a ‘Man with a Purpose’ bring to the table? An offer to help identify and deal with specific, school board-level pain points/problems related to effectiveness. Rolland B’s value proposition is based on a WEALTH OF INSIGHTS that can only come from the unique combination of various roles he performed, for three decades, toiling in the vineyards of K-12 education, including these roles: interim superintendent, chief business official, external CPA, and school board member.
Greetings! Welcome to the website of
Rolland B
What does a ‘Man with a Purpose’ bring to the table? An offer to help identify and deal with specific, school board-level pain points/problems related to effectiveness. Rolland B’s value proposition is based on a WEALTH OF INSIGHTS that can only come from the unique combination of various roles he performed, for three decades, toiling in the vineyards of K-12 education, including these roles: interim superintendent, chief business official, external CPA, and school board member.
Greetings! Welcome to the website of
Rolland B
What does a ‘Man with a Purpose’ bring to the table? An offer to help identify and deal with specific, school board-level pain points/problems related to effectiveness. Rolland B’s value proposition is based on a WEALTH OF INSIGHTS that can only come from the unique combination of various roles he performed, for three decades, toiling in the vineyards of K-12 education, including these roles: interim superintendent, chief business official, external CPA, and school board member.
About
Rolland B
Rolland B brings a deep understanding of the burdens of school board service, having served for eight years as an at-large member of the Board of Education of Rowland Unified School District – with close to 20,000 K-12 students at that time, housed in three high schools, three intermediate schools, fifteen elementary schools, and an adult school – covering all of Rowland Heights and portions of the cities of Walnut, West Covina, and La Puente, in Los Angeles County, California.
Rolland’s Purpose
Rolland’s purpose is two-fold: To beat the drums for American democracy and to help school boards REGAIN, ATTAIN, and MAINTAIN their maximum effectiveness. Let him explain.
More than ten years ago, Rolland B retired from his CPA practice specialized in financial and compliance audits of California school districts and other local educational agencies.
Rolland should have just sailed into the sunset, but … in retirement, he felt compelled to do one more mission – a cause with a slight hint of nobility of purpose.
After much time for introspection, during the pandemic, Rolland discovered his late-in-life calling: To beat the drums for American democracy – through his long-deferred books, his blog posts, and his public speaking. Rolland believes this is his destiny. In his heart of heart – Shakespeare’s Hamlet does not say “in my heart of hearts,” but “in my heart of heart” – Rolland believes that beating the drums for American democracy is the gift he was born to give.
And so it is that in spite of serious health issues, in the twilight of his life – after toiling for three decades in the vineyards of public K-12 education – Rolland has been writing furiously a few books on the twin topics of public K-12 education and American democracy. As an immigrant from the Far East, Rolland is forever grateful to America for the freedoms and the many blessings of democracy; and he considers his forthcoming books as his modest offerings on the altar of American democracy.
Through his books and blog posts, Rolland seeks to raise questions to stimulate conversations about America’s public K-12 education system and the role it plays in sustaining the longest experiment in democracy the world has ever known.
Rolland B believes that American democracy is at the precipice and that K-12 education has a crucial role to play in rescuing democracy from the abyss
Greetings! Welcome to the website of
Rolland B
What does a ‘Man with a Purpose’ bring to the table? An offer to help identify and deal with specific, school board-level pain points/problems related to effectiveness. Rolland B’s value proposition is based on a WEALTH OF INSIGHTS that can only come from the unique combination of various roles he performed, for three decades, toiling in the vineyards of K-12 education, including these roles: interim superintendent, chief business official, external CPA, and school board member.
Greetings! Welcome to the website of
Rolland B
What does a ‘Man with a Purpose’ bring to the table? An offer to help identify and deal with specific, school board-level pain points/problems related to effectiveness. Rolland B’s value proposition is based on a WEALTH OF INSIGHTS that can only come from the unique combination of various roles he performed, for three decades, toiling in the vineyards of K-12 education, including these roles: interim superintendent, chief business official, external CPA, and school board member.
Greetings! Welcome to the website of
Rolland B
What does a ‘Man with a Purpose’ bring to the table? An offer to help identify and deal with specific, school board-level pain points/problems related to effectiveness. Rolland B’s value proposition is based on a WEALTH OF INSIGHTS that can only come from the unique combination of various roles he performed, for three decades, toiling in the vineyards of K-12 education, including these roles: interim superintendent, chief business official, external CPA, and school board member.
My Blog Posts
What Is the Purpose of Education?
Greetings, Mr. school board member, Miss/Mrs. school board member! Glad we can talk! “What is…
Blog with A Purpose
The purpose of this blog – my MISSION — is to raise questions and stimulate…
WHY BLOG?
Why blog, Rolland B? You want to write about K-12 public education? You don’t even…
What I Do
Writing
I just started blogging and am working on more than a few books on the twin topics of K-12 education and American democracy, planned for release in the future or sooner.
Public Speaking
I’m available to speak before gatherings of K-12 school board members, school board trustees, superintendents, and other administrators and influencers.
Consulting
To serve the K-12 community, I am available to do short-term consulting engagements with local educational agencies (LEAs) – California LEAs only, for now. My consulting services exclusively for LEAs include:
