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In five episodes, Karin Chenoweth and Kris Amundson lay out all the major aspects of a school board campaign, including the questions candidates should ask themselves before they even file for election; the nuts and bolts of running a campaign; fundraising; organizing the campaign; and developing a winning campaign message. Karin Chenoweth, founder of Democracy and Education, is a long-time education writer whose latest book is Districts That Succeed: Breaking the Correlation Between Race, Poverty, and Achievement (Harvard Education Press, 2021). Kris Amundson was a member of the Fairfax County Virginia school board, a delegate to the Virginia General Assembly, and long-time head of the National Association of State Boards of Education. Her latest book is Unfinished Learning: Schools, Parents, and the COVID School Closures (Rowman & Littlefield).