The Greene County School Board is starting a new process this year to evaluate the District’s top position.

The School Board is utilizing a new program called “360-degree Superintendent Evaluation,” with the goal of gathering feedback from multiple sources and providing ongoing opportunities for progress to better serve the final evaluation of the superintendent’s position throughout the school year. The School Board established a timeline that allows them to check-in with the superintendent periodically throughout the school year to see if the individual is working toward the established goals that were set in July.

At last month’s meeting, the Board established those goals and will have their first progress report with Superintendent Tim Christensen in October and another is scheduled to happen in January, before the final evaluation happens in March. Christensen believes that an ongoing evaluation is a better way to make improvements.

“If somebody waits a full year to tell you that they didn’t like what you did a year ago, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when you could’ve found that out and made some changes. So I like that concept of the ongoing evaluation.”

The Board will also gather feedback from questionnaires sent out to randomly selected teachers, staff, students and parents that will aid the Board in their final evaluations. Christensen likes the direction the Board has taken.

“I think it is good to get perspective from a lot of different people. We’re also having conversations of what that could look like for principals, and what that could look like for teachers. It is a good concept. When you’re looking from one direction, you really can’t see everything.”

The questionnaires will be administered through Survey Monkey and Board President Dr. Mark Peters has previously stated that the feedback from the questionnaires will play a small part in their final evaluations of Christensen in the spring.