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Superintendent Evaluation Final Report and Comments (15 minutes) vote required

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(ID # 7367) Announcements - Chair Superintendent Evaluation Final Report and Comments (15 minutes) vote required

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▶ 1:23:53 Speaker 1: and that passes with four in favor two one absent and two abstentions thank you for the help of the

▶ 1:24:05 Speaker 1: math much appreciate it i got that right thank you very much and that brings us uh to uh the superintendent's evaluation final report and comments this does require a vote uh as per our agreed upon process i did prepare a summary of our respective individual evaluations of the the superintendent's progress and as we all know and as the public should know we engage in this effort in accordance with a rubric that is dictated by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and we evaluate the superintendent's progress against the standards within that rubric we decide on the standards that will be applicable and we do that based upon the superintendent's goals for the school year which we she presents and we vote on this year the evaluations were done in the areas of instructional leadership management and operations and professional culture the committee knows and the public may recall that this was last discussed when we last met on June 25th at that time members of the committee submitted that evening and thereafter their individual evaluations and there was an opportunity for discussion and discussion was had that evening so again in the packet I prepared an executive summary as the committee and public will note in the area of instructional leadership miss Tame more earned an overall exemplary rating likewise in management and operations and in professional culture I've provided within each area a brief summary of the members comments identifying successes challenges and opportunities for growth and I've also provided the scores and those scores were exemplary and proficient throughout out there were no needs improvement or unsatisfactory ratings and again within each category Miss Tim Moore was rated exemplary and the overall rating not surprisingly was exemplary any comments or questions seeing none a vote is

▶ 1:26:37 Speaker 1: required to approve this and mr. school moves to approve thank you for that mr. school is there a second second seconded by mr obramsky any final discussion seeing none all

▶ 1:26:52 Speaker 1: those in favor and that passes with six in favor and one absent thank you for that would you like

▶ 1:26:59 Speaker 3: to comment madam superintendent thank you mr o'connor and thank you all for your generosity and it really is generosity um i i i just want to point out a couple of things and and i to remind the public but a lot of this is about how I not me being personally responsible for some of this work but how I have my people hold my people accountable for their performance and some of you made some very relevant and worthwhile comments about you know the unevenness of some things and you know some schools are making more progress than others and that is the nature of the business and my job is to bring everybody along but what I really want to comment on this year this year is is I have to thank not only my administrative team but the teachers this was a difficult year in terms of

▶ 1:27:56 Speaker 3: where I had to focus I had to focus on the override developing two budgets and very long and intense contract negotiations quite frankly none of which is my first love and I had to delegate a lot of what I really like to do to my administrative team and they really kept us going they kept us moving on all the goals we had they kept people engaged when it was necessary you know they pitched hit for me when I was involved in other things because of the other demands especially as you all know I also had some personal demands this year and I really well I thank you for your rating I really have to tell you without my team none of this is possible because they really do they're the boots on the ground and they're the ones that do it every day so thank you for that thank