|
Parent Contact: Marilyn Williams,
fivewilliams@comcast.net
Staff input for Principal selection (notes from meeting held Feb 4, 2008)
Parent
input for Principal selection (notes from meeting held Feb 6, 2008)
Timeline
- Feb. 4 - FUSD Dir. of
Certified Personnel met with MSJHS teachers and staff to discuss the
selection process
- Feb. 6 - FUSD Dir. of
Certified Personnel met with parents to discuss the selection process
- Friday, Feb. 22 - Final list
of 12 questions (determined by parents and teachers/staff) to be submitted
to district office
- Friday, Feb. 29: Position
posting closes
- Monday, Mar. 3 - All
applications to be reviewed
- Friday, Mar. 14 - Interviews
of 8 candidates will be held at the district office
Process
overview
When the district was notified of
Mr. Kew's plan to retire at the end of the school year, the process began to
find his replacement. The intention is to treat this as an "open position" and
have someone hired before school lets out for the summer so that next year's
principal will be the permanent, not interim, principal.
The district procedures for the
selection of a School Principal can be found at
http://www.fremont.k12.ca.us/humanresources/ProcedureforPrincipalSelection.pdf
Parents that attended the meeting
held on February 6 were asked to come up with a list of qualities that we would
like to see in the principal candidates. They included Leadership
Attributes, Specific Skills and Personal Characteristics. The qualities were
discussed and input delivered to Bev Chernoff, Dir. of Certified Personnel, that
night.
Timeline
Additionally, the parents were
asked to select three parents who would participate in the interview process on
March 14. The parents voted on the three parent representatives, plus one
alternate.
The parents were also asked to
come up with a list of twelve interview questions that they would like to have
asked of the principal candidates during the interview process. We are now
soliciting feedback from as many parents as possible to help us come up with the
best list of questions. The meeting to discuss these questions and select the
final twelve will be held on Monday, Feb. 18 at 7:00 pm at Mission Coffee on
Washington Blvd. All interested parents are urged to attend.
If
you have ideas for questions to be asked of candidates, please submit them to
our Parent Contact, Marilyn Williams,
fivewilliams@comcast.net.
Once the parents have finalized
their list of twelve questions, the parent liaison will meet with the teacher
representative to combine questions and come up with the final list of twelve
questions to be asked of all candidates. The final list of twelve questions will
be submitted to the district office on Feb. 22..
As mentioned in the district
procedure document, the interview committee will consist of three certificated
staff, one classified staff member, three parents selected by parent groups, and
two administrative/community members. The committee will screen the eight
candidates to three, and present them to the Superintendent in unranked order.
The final candidates will be interviewed by the Superintendent, Assistant
Superintendent of Human Resources, the Assistant Superintendent of Instructional
Services, and several school board members. The Superintendent will make the
final decision and share the name of the successful candidate with the Board. |
