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Superintendent Search and Interviews

Posted by Bonnie Berry on November 16, 2021 at 11:29am

We are beginning a new superintendent search with the assistance of our District Superintendent.  We want all stakeholders to be involved in the  interviews.  We have done a composite committee in previous years of all stakeholders to give input to the Board and a community forum.  We also had separate stakeholder groups, the community forum and all input to the Board.  What have districts done to involve all stakeholders? Thank you, Bonnie Berry. Peru

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  • Tracy Young November 19, 2021 at 9:20am
    We started with an anonymous survey that was available to everyone. We also created 5 stakeholder groups: administrators, faculty; support staff; high school students, and parents/community members. We had a fabulous response to our survey (3x our expected number). The key to the survey response was ensuring that it was anonymous. We did not use Google Survey as that created an impression that it was not anonymous. Each stakeholder group had between 10-14 individuals. When we had more than 10-14 individuals who wished to participate, we selected the names from a hat. We wanted to ensure that everyone felt that the process was fair.
  • Matt Metras November 19, 2021 at 8:47am
    When we did a super search 3 years ago, we did an online survey of the community to identify priorities they were looking for in a superintendent. We also had about a dozen "focus groups" to do the same in person.
  • Bill Grau November 19, 2021 at 8:39am
    We did pretty much the same thing you did. We had committees made up of faculty/staff, administrators, community members and students. We had a board member "moderate" those sessions.
  • David Dwyer November 16, 2021 at 11:59am
    We had a very successful process using the District Superintendent and his staff. Initially, the DS or a member of his staff met with all the stakeholders to ask what they were looking for in a superintendent. We received more applications than we expected. After the deadline, we met with the DS who brought in the box of applications. We passed them among the board members and agreed to interview eight. The interviews took a lot of time, but it was time well spent. Following that, we gathered again and selected three finalists. Each of those folks spent a day in the district and met with every group. The finalists and their spouses then had dinner with the board after their day in the district. Following that process, we had a final session with the DS and selected our new superintendent. I would recommend the process we used, which we thought was very successful. David Dwyer, Geneseo
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