- What do you anticipate being the most difficult types of challenges that you will face in our district?
- Describe the process you use in communications between school board members and the superintendent.
- How will you build and sustain an effective leadership team?
- Describe a crisis to which you’ve responded and tell us the strategizes you use to deal with and avoid crises.
- How would you deal with a hostile and aggressive crowd attending a public meeting of the Board of Education? What plan might you put together in anticipation of such a meeting?
- What process do you go through in developing a District Budget?
- What lessons have you learned in dealing with the Covid-19 epidemic and what changes would you seek to make which would improve the district as a result of these lessons learned?
- Assume that there is a serious need to improve buildings and grounds; how would you go about doing Capital Improvement Planning that might include a Bond Issue?
- What is your approach to effectively evaluate teachers and school leaders that results in their professional growth and development?
- Outline your Entry Plan once you are appointed and extending into your first hundred days on the job.
- What qualities do you look for in hiring teaching and leadership candidates?
- How do you go about making visits to schools? What do you look for?
- leaders and Central Office, and school leaders and Board Members.
- How do you teach and mentor school leaders?
- What functions and problems should the Superintendent directly and personally take on?
- Describe the process you use in developing annual district goals.
- What role do you play in negotiations with various unions?
- How do you determine when it is necessary to communicate with school legal counsel?
- How do you handle Superintendent-Student Disciplinary Hearings?
- How do you prefer to develop agendas for Board Meetings?
- What should be the role of the Board President?
- What is your role in dealing with grievances?
- How do you deal with conducting investigations of wrongdoing?
- How do you prefer that the Board do your Superintendent Evaluation?
- Walk through the steps of developing and putting up a Bond Issue
- How do you go about deciding on a Snow Day?
- What is your approach to dealing with the Union Leaders?
- How transparent is your approach to “transparency”?
- How do you go about building district-wide morale?
- Taking a long-term view, how do you go about sustaining positive change?
- Describe your Decision-Making Process
- Tell us about an unpopular decision you made? What did you learn from it?
- Tell us about innovations you brought about in the area of School Security and Public Safety.
- How do you develop positive relations with local Police and Fire Officials?
- What creative ideas do you have about maintaining a positive public image for the district?
- How will you make yourself more accessible to your publics?
- How will you deal with “special requests and favors” from “entitled” constituents?
- How do you deal with disloyal school leaders who critical of your leadership?
- What would you do if you strongly disagreed with a decision of the Board despite your best efforts to persuade?
- How long do you expect to remain in the district?
- What are your professional or personal guiding principles that are non-negotiable?
- How do you deal with free speech and student publications?
- What is your vision of the future role of technology?
- How do you deal with the ever-rising costs of special education?
- What do you consider to be your three great professional accomplishments?
- What are some of your ideas about cost savings?
- What would your critics say about you?
- What would your advocates say about you?
- What would you want to accomplish five years from now that would lead us to agree that you have been a successful leader?
- Tell us about a student, or teacher, or school leader who you feel you helped change the course of his/her life.
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