Mount Clemens Community Schools Superintendent Search Stakeholder Input Survey

Community and Staff Input

Thank you for sharing your perspective regarding the qualities, experiences, and skills that you would like to see in the district's next superintendent. The survey is being administered by the MASB Executive Search team on behalf of the district and takes about ten minutes to complete. Anonymous individual responses like yours will be combined with those from other stakeholders to provide important community input to the Board of Education as it seeks to identify the best candidate for the position. Responses that contain the names of individuals and/or foul language will be deleted. Consolidated results from all returned surveys will be reported publicly.

One important note: as you go through this survey, you will probably find that every trait and skill discussed is important to you at least to some extent. Your challenge is to help us prioritize between traits that are somewhat important for the next superintendent and those that are critically important—so try to use the full range of any scales we provide and reserve “top box” ratings for only the few items that in your mind rise above the rest.

To begin, we have just a few questions that will help us categorize your answers with other similar stakeholders in this process.

1.If you are a resident, how long have you lived in the school district?

4.In your view, what are the strengths of the district? Type your answer in the box below.

5.From your perspective, what challenges do you think the school district will face over the next five years or so that could impact educational programs for the students? Type your answer in the box below.

6.What is the minimum level of education you want the Board to consider when evaluating candidates for the superintendent position? (Check ONE answer below.)

9.Below are six different leadership style descriptions. Recognizing that a leader may employ all of these management styles in different situations and at different points in time, are there some that you think should be the dominant style for an effective superintendent? Read through the list and choose up to TWO management styles that you would like the next superintendent to employ most often .

Situational leadership: this leader demonstrates different leadership styles depending on the situation.

Democratic leadership: this leader will make the final decision but invites other members of the team to contribute to the decision making process.

Collaborative leadership: this leader leads by using consensus building and other group processes to arrive at mutually beneficial decisions.

Transformational leadership: this leader inspires his or her team with a shared vision of the future.

Delegated leadership: this leader is willing to turn over responsibility for decision making and problem solving to others.

Servant leadership: this leader leads simply by virtue of meeting the needs of his or her team.

12.In choosing the next superintendent, which path or strategy below do you think the Board of Education should take? (Choose ONE answer.)

Find a candidate who will stay the course and continue the good work of the current administration

Find a candidate with the same basic educational and management philosophy as the current administration, but who can make some necessary changes

Find a very different kind of candidate—one who is ready to take the district in a significantly different direction

13.Tell us why you chose your answer above. If you think the district should stay the course, what aspects of the district give you that confidence in its leadership? If you think the course of the district should change, what changes would you want the new superintendent to make and why?

Those are all the questions we have for you. Thank you again for your willingness to provide input to this important process!