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Clover Park board hears multiple WASDA-aligned policy updates, discusses superintendent evaluation and director standards
Summary
The board reviewed several policy updates from WASDA model language, including a new superintendent-evaluation policy and proposed standards for individual school directors; directors raised questions about the evaluation schedule, communication as an evaluation metric and standardizing nondiscrimination language across policies.
At the Feb. 23 workshop, Greg Davis, executive director for human resources, presented a series of proposed policy revisions aligned to WASDA model policies and Washington state school-board standards. The 1000-series updates include revisions to policy 1005 (board functions), reclassifying policy 1111 (oath of office) from discretionary to important, a proposed new policy 1630 establishing superintendent-evaluation criteria, and a proposed new policy 1821 setting standards for individual school directors.
Davis said policy 1630 would "establish evaluation criteria for the superintendent, outline the process, and list the minimum criteria to be included in the evaluation," and that policy 1821 would create a six‑category rubric for director conduct (values/ethical behavior, leadership, communication, professional development, accountability and commitment to education equity). Directors asked procedural and substantive questions about the evaluation cadence and content.
Superintendent Banner described the district’s current practice as a formal annual evaluation in January with a midyear June check-in that aligns with contract-extension timing. Several directors said they would like communication to be an explicit criterion; one director said effective communication already appears in the current evaluation instrument and in state law. Directors also recommended standardizing nondiscrimination language across the policy book and flagged punctuation and parallel‑language issues to be corrected before final adoption.
No policy adoptions occurred at the workshop; several items remain in first or second reading with final adoption scheduled for March 9 or later.
