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Board reviews revised superintendent job description and Act 20 reading-policy changes; votes expected later
Summary
Trustees reviewed a comprehensive update to the superintendent job description aligned to 10 administrative standards, debated the inclusion of KPIs and the phrase 'moral imperative,' and heard staff present Policy 341.1 reading-goal changes required by Act 20; administration said the job description will be brought back for a formal board vote.
Trustees spent a large portion of the Sept. 9 work session reviewing personnel and policy updates, including a revised superintendent job description and statutory obligations for reading instruction under Act 20.
Vicki presented the superintendent-of-schools job description updated to reflect 10 administrative standards. Trustees asked whether the changes were more than wording updates and sought clarity on the repeated use of the phrase "moral imperative." Trustee Lynn asked who determined that phrase and whether it appears in the source documents; Vicki said she had relied on a superintendent-evaluation framework the board purchased and would verify the origin of the wording.
Trustees also debated whether key performance indicators (KPIs) should be embedded in the job description or kept in a separate evaluation framework. Mike Freese and others noted the evaluation instrument and job description are related but separate; the board will vote on the final job description at a later meeting.
Administration presented revisions to Board Policy 341.1 to implement Act 20 requirements that the board formally adopt district reading goals. Melissa explained the policy changes and answered trustee questions about how annual evaluation of reading curriculum would relate to the district’s five-year curriculum adoption cycle; staff said annual evaluation informs classroom-level adjustments but does not typically short-circuit a five-year adoption process.
Board members also reviewed clustered job-description updates for after-school site directors, clerical classifications, and athletics/activities directors; trustees requested administrative clarification on the athletics/activities director’s preferred title and the range of acceptable educational qualifications (education degree versus sports-management or related fields).
Finally, staff summarized a set of policy updates across student services — including plan revisions for students with disabilities, a rewritten guidance and counseling policy, updates on service-animal rules that distinguish curricular dogs from ADA/IDEA service animals, tobacco and nicotine rules extended to vehicles, consolidation of alcohol and other drug policy language, and revisions to suicide-prevention policy.
Several items were presented for review and will return to the board as action items at future meetings; no final personnel or reading-policy votes occurred during the work session.
