Every school district needs a system of sound superintendent performance
evaluation. School district superintendents are and must be accountable
to their school boards, communities, faculties, and students for
delivering effective educational leadership. To assure that they are
evaluated fairly, competently, and functionally, superintendents need to
help their school boards plan and implement evaluation systems that
adhere to the evaluation standards.
Superintendent Performance Evaluation outlines some of the problems
and deficiencies in current evaluation practice and offers
professionally-based leads for strengthening or replacing superintendent
performance evaluation systems. This book focuses on the on-the-job
performance of school district superintendents as they implement school
board policy. The decision to focus on performance evaluation reflects
the importance of this kind of evaluation in the move to raise
educational standards and improve educational accountability. Boards and
superintendents are advised to make superintendent performance
evaluation an integral part of the district's larger system for
evaluating district needs, plans, processes, and accomplishments.