A Guide For School Boards Page 7
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59OSBA Superintendent Evaluation
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electing and evaluating the superintendent is one of the school
board’s most important jobs. A high-quality superintendent
evaluation process helps develop good board/superintendent
relationships, provides clarity of roles, creates common understand-
ing of the leadership being provided and provides a mechanism for
public accountability.
The evaluation process involves the four core board-governing roles:
Vision: Goal sett ing.
Structure: Developing a clear writt en evaluation plan and time-
line.
Accountability: Measuring the superintendent’s performance.
Advocacy: Communication of goals and progress among the
board, superintendent and community.
Performance evaluations are most eff ective when they are designed
and used for communicating future expectations, not simply for re-
viewing past performance. As many superintendents are aware, if you
don’t know what the board expects, it is diffi cult, if not impossible, to
meet those expectations. On the other hand, if the board fails to moni-
tor progress towards its goals, it will not know when they have been
successfully completed.
Most boards fi nd themselves asking questions such as these:
What should we evaluate?
How can we do it objectively and fairly?
When should the superintendent’s evaluation take place?
OSBA has developed an evaluation process and three-part evaluation
tool that can help answer these questions and serve as the foundation
upon which school boards can build their own evaluation process and
documents.
What should we evaluate?
The superintendency is a professional position equivalent to the chief
executive offi cer in the private sector. As such, the superintendent is
charged with leading and administering the organization according
to the policies adopted by the school board. The purpose of evaluat-
ing the superintendent is not to micromanage the organization, but
to provide oversight and public assurance that the policies are being
eff ectively implemented. Another critical purpose is to provide input
and feedback to the superintendent to help him or her continually
improve.
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