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What I wish we could do for the Superintendent's evaluation

Posted by Kristin Rumovicz on January 24, 2017 at 2:26pm

I am a member of our county school boards association and we are hosting an officers round table to discuss superintendent's evaluations.  I am presenting as an "experienced" Board president. Air quotes intended.  I have only been president for 3 years but I have served on the evaluation committee for the past 6 years.

It seems like each district has their own rubric to use and I would like the focus of my presentation to be on how the rubric is used to make it an effective use of our time. 

We have broken the evaluation into monthly chunks, so at the end of each meeting we add another piece to the final version.  I am looking to see if anyone has any other ideas or practices that make this process better.  How do you collect evidence for these evidence based evaluations?  Is the process interactive?  Does your entire board participate or does it come from a committee?  What things have you tried to get better information or to make the process seem more user friendly? 

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  • Paul Haggett June 10, 2022 at 10:32am
    Our Board has been using SuperEval for the past three years. In my 7 years on the board we have had a spotty record of even completing a superintendent evaluation. SuperEval makes the process much easier and more streamlined, although it is still a struggle to get board members to complete it, despite my “browbeating”, which I try to avoid. My aim is to have all evaluations complete by our June BOE meeting so we can review as a group with the superintendent and sign off on the document.
  • Rob Curtis April 8, 2022 at 10:38am
    We meet as a board toward the end of the school year and complete the evaluation together. Previously we each would complete an individual evaluation and then thenPresident would compile the results into a single form.
    Completing it together has work well for us and provided more robust feedback.
  • Sheri Senecal September 12, 2019 at 2:38pm
    Our entire Board participates in this. Each Board member is provided the evaluation tool so they can fill it out and score it on their own. We then have a meeting in Executive Session for the Board to discuss the evaluation scoring and then the President compiles all of the comments and scoring into one document and then sets up a meeting with the Superintendent to present the evaluation. The Board did decide to go away from the evaluation tool that we had been using as it was outdated and didn't line up with the Goals so we discussed it with the Superintendent and have found a new evaluation tool to use for the coming year.
  • Kristina Hameister September 12, 2019 at 11:40am
    I apologize~ I just noticed the posting of this! Sorry about that!!
  • Kristina Hameister September 12, 2019 at 11:39am
    Our entire board participates. We usually talk together about any opinions, issues, what we're happy or not happy about, etc at our July meeting. Then we have an Annual Evaluation packet that is handed out to each BOE member to take home and work on. This packet is defined in 8 categories with a Rating Scale of 1-5~ 1- Unsatisfactory 5- Outstanding:
    1: Relations with the School Board, 2: Relations with Professional Staff, 3: Public and Community Relations, 4: Educational Outcome Management, 5: Business/Fiscal Management, 6: Professional and Personal Characteristics, 7: Curriculum and Instructional Management, 8: Achievement of District Goals, 9: Overall Evaluation Each of these categories has a Rating and then an area to write about STRENGTHS and WEAKNESSES. Then there's ADDITIONAL COMMENTS and Superintendent's Response to the Evaluation by the Board:

    The BOE President gives a date (Usually by the 1st or 2nd week of August) to hand all of the evaluations in and will compile all the evaluations into one. You can then go over the final completed evaluation in executive session with the entire board. If all is satisfactory, you can then go over the completed evaluation with your Superintendent. We choose to have our current President go over the final evaluation privately, at a time that's convenient for both to get together during the school day. Hope this helps.

    Kris
  • Kristin Rumovicz January 25, 2017 at 1:20pm
    Rachel, I saw that at the NYSSBA Convention and thought it looked cool. How did you do evaluations before using that program?
  • Rachel Relkin January 25, 2017 at 1:17pm
    We have just started to use a program called SuperEval. You can check it out at its website. It makes the process easier in terms of evidence collection and process.
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