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Show Goodworth's Evaluation Outlines Schiller 's Faults Accompanied Schiller's Evaluation 'Jan. 10, 1983'. ' " ! To: Dr. Brian Schiller, Principal, Treasure Mountain Middle School. From: Dr. Richard L. Goodworth, Superintendent of Schools. Subject: Guidelines Provided By., Board of Education at January 4," 1983 ' "Executive Session. You had made a request to meet with the Board of Education in an executive session to review your performance. As a result of that meeting, the Board provided some rather direct guidelines for your performance. I feel it appropriate to attach those as a part of your evaluation knowing that a remediation plan must include those as components. compon-ents. 1 . Your immediate supervisor is Dr. Richard Goodworth, Superintendent of Schools, and you are: . a. to do what he directs you to do. b. to seek counsel from him in the operation of your school. c. to request any changes from the previous programs through him. 2. You must comply with the policies of the Board of Education to the letter of the law and not just your perceived spirit. 3. You are to take leadership and provide direction to your staff . to assure they comply with Board policies and directions from the Superintendent Superinten-dent of Schools. Board members expressed concern about your ability to deal with your staff. 4. Grievances by you or your staff are to be placed on a grievance form and the established grievance procedures proce-dures shall be followed. The Board asks that grievances not be publicly aired or discussed while being handled in the grievance procedures established establish-ed by the school board. 5. Your social relationship with a board member was to remain on the level of a social relationship and not to be construed to be giving you direction from the Board. 6. Once decisions have been made from the Board, you are to publicly and privately support those decisions in total. former assignment. This has given him the opportunity to develop expertise in curriculum which is helpful to the district. 2. Dr. Schiller's evaluation of his staff, though not timely in completion, is nevertheless thorough and indicates insight into curriculum.. ; t v r 3. Students of the Park City School District, under Dr. Schiller's leadership, leader-ship, are being provided with some positive innovative programs, such as outdoor education and the seventh and eighth grade tripswhich can enhance students' educational opportunities. 4. The Nature Center proposal with which Dr. Schiller is working could provide additional educational opportunities oppor-tunities for the district's students. 5. In response to some specific requests, Dr. Schiller has followed up on specific items of need relating to the construction of the new middle school. He has also exhibited the required patience in moving into a new school setting. 6. He represents the wants and needs of the individual staff members to the Superintendent and Board of Education. Several creative approaches approach-es have been made through him to the district office. I feel the following may give some positive direction to Dr. Schiller and is designed to serve a helping relationship: relation-ship: 1. Dr. Schiller needs to expend more time in studying the policy manual and assuring that action he takes does indeed follow policy. This evaluator should point out that Dr. Schiller, in more than a single instance, has failed to follow the policies of the Park City Board of Education. A couple of examples: a. Evaluations - The policy on evaluation of teachers requires that all non-tenured teachers be evaluated prior to October 20th and that all teacher evaluations be completed on or before December 15th. Dr. Schiller, on October 20th, had not completed evaluations of any of his professional personnel; and as of December 22, 1982, has still not completed evaluations evalua-tions of five individuals. This is most serious, especially in view of the fact that the one individual Dr. Schiller has indicated questionable performance, still has not a completed evaluation even though still untenured. b. Placement of 5th-6th Grades -Sometime ago, there was much It should be further pointed out that Dr. Schiller indicated in discussion with the Park City School District staff that "rules are made to be broken,v insinuating to them that the policies of the district were more obstacles to be overcome than guidance to assist. Such a position is not in the spirit of professionalism within the Park City School District. 2. It appears from information being received by this office from the Teachers Association, that Dr. Schiller has either directly, or indirectly ; encouraged his staff to ignore district -policy. Sometime ago, the district adopted a grievance procedure in which if problems were perceived, they could be carefully enunciated and enumerated and moved through the procedure to solution. It appears that Dr. Schiller has not encouraged his staff to follow that policy; but had encouraged or permitted his staff to go directly to individual board members rather than through the grievance procedure. Such short-circuiting of the system fails in meeting established agreements between the Board and the Teacher's Association; this seriously ser-iously impacts the district administrative administra-tive organizational chart, and possesses possess-es potentially explosive consequences. 3. Dr. Schiller has adopted a position most recently which has been devisive and argumentative by nature. Due to this position, he had tended to divide the Board of Education into those who have some reservations of his continued employment and those who are most supportive of him. He has further disrupted the administrative administra-tive meeting process and has found himself somewhat isolated from the other administrators, dividing and defeating the positive resolution and administrative decision making process. pro-cess. I am led to believe from meetings with the association leadership that Dr. Schiller has also attempted to divide his staff from the Association and has caused turmoil within the ranks of the staff within the Park City School District. From recent input from various patrons of the district, it appears now that Dr. Schiller is working to divide the school district into camps relative to his performance and the performance of other administrators in the district. Dr. Schiller needs to spend considerable time in honing his skills to unify all aspects of the educational organization. organiza-tion. 4. At the time Dr. Schiller was hired, the Board of Education was somewhat concerned with the leadership, control, con-trol, and supervision of the middle school. Dr. Schiller was given fairly free rein to pull the staff together and to resolve those problems in that school. To date, he has not provided that direction, but has simply appeared to join the turmoil of the staff. 5. Dr. Schiller has tended to utilize administrative staff meetings as a format to ferment some unrest int he district. This has built until at one of the recent meetings all administrators in attendance found themselves in opposition to his position and posture. Yet, he refused to acknowledge that he had created problems. Furthermore, it should s be pointed out that he had indicated to certain members of the public that the condition is now one of a choice between him or the Superintendent.' .'.Sut'h'i'eanh(tf.be piftitrv'tf .'I n 'J rbsfeblishf fl t$ W)f k i ng -1(7 seir i Lod z sra r! i f -r n s if ; 1 3-m ivi, relationship. It has been further reported that he has made attacks on all members of the district office with his staff and the public. 6. While Dr. Schiller expends tremendous amounts of time and is very dedicated to students, he seems to show a lack of commitment to the routine handling of matters which have to be considered very critical and important. For example, last summer we supported his trip to England, yet at the conclusion of that time he did noti return immediately. He spent ' additional time out of the district, when he should have been on the job assuring that his school was,' ready to go. Additionally, -Dr. Schiller has departed for Michigan for the Christmas season, even prior to the time that school was out. 7. On occasion, Dr. Schiller has failed to meet the request of the Superintendent in an appropriate and timely manner. For example, some ten days ago, I requested a listing of the broken furniture delivered to the new school so that it could be. replaced. He indicated he would get that to me immediately, but has failed to do so. 8. Dr. Schiller has taken a position that Dr. Jack Dozier is too closely tied with the Superintendent. This is in a large part due to the fact that the Superintendent's office resides within the Park City High School. It should be pointed out that I made an attempt to solve that problem, before it became a problem, by asking for the opportunity to move the district office to the middle school so that I would not be perceived to be too closely tied with the high school. Dr. Schiller opposed that move and was successful in bringing that position before the board so that the action should not be taken. One intent of the action though was to see if I could resolve those perceived discrepancies. discre-pancies. 9. Dr. Schiller has established a rather close social relationship with one of the board members. That social relationship may be dividing the district and causing perceived and real . problems by other administrators as to the control andor disbursement of the district's funds and resources. I would encourage him to review that social relationship to assure that it is always kept on a purely social level. 10. Dr. Schiller needs, not only to establish more supervision and control of the professional staff under his direct supervision, but with the classified personnel as well. For example, I met with Dr. Schiller on more than one occasion, to indicate that Rick Blair had been seen in areas and doing things that were not appropriate under his job description. Yet, as late as last week, Rick Blair was observed by other school employees uptown on time when he should have been in the school. 11. Dr. Schiller needs to be fully aware that the right of disagreement is inherent and can be a healthy, positive, situation as long as when decisions are ultimately reached, those decisions are followed. There can be no administrative rejection or backbiting backbit-ing after a decision has been made. It must be supported by all. Such is the case on the gym floor as well as the lines on the gym floor and other areas in which it appear that, once the decision was made by the Board of Education, the matter should have . t,vm;n ni' Please tlirn to page Goodworth's Evaluation of Schiller Jan. 3, 1983 received Jan. 10, 1983. To: Park City Board of Education Members From: Dr. Richard L. Goodworth, Superintendent of Schools. Subject: Annual Evaluation of Dr. Brian T. Schiller. This is the second year that Dr. Schiller is serving as principal of the middle school. He has now been in the district approximately a year and a half. During that time he has utilized many of the skills that he brought with . him to the district, and at the same time has gained some new skills and capabilities during hs brief tenure here. I feel that the following positive comments should be made: jil. iDrSchillexocajTiettc tfaeKtrkt having? seeded in rstbfp5sitionsdn-jjisf titties discussion held relative to the placement of the fifth and sixth grades. The decision was made by the Board of Education that those grades would be incorporated with the seventh and eighth grades in the middle school. At that time it was directed that the fifth and sixth grades would be kept separate and apart from the seventh and eighth grades. The entire structure of the school was designed to accomodate that. Yet, when I went over to observe the placement of students, I was distressed distress-ed to learn that the principal and the teachers within the middle school had failed to follow the negotiated middle school philosophy in that there was a mixing of locations of the seventh and eighth grades and the fifth and sixth grades. I found myself in a situation of having to provide specific directions to Dr. Schiller requiring that he make the appropriate changes in order to comply with the middle school philosophy as adopted by-the Board of Edtoitidriin tmjuu gniuuqo faoomz Gobdworth's Evaluation of Schiller Continued Continued from Page 8A been put to rest. Yet, it has continued ! to be revived to the detriment of the district. Vince Lombardi said it best when he indicated: "I don't think I am as strict as people say. The one thing I insist upon is that any rule we make, everybody has to live by it - without deviation, if you don't like the rule, you can speak up. We have changed rules when somebody has protested. But I have never changed any rule when the form of protest was breaking the rule." Dr. Schiller needs to reorient himself to gain control over the staff, classified and professional, and pull the middle school tocether for the unified workings of the school district. I would recommend that a remediation remedia-tion plan be established, and that Dr. Schiller be placed on remediation for the remainder of this academic vear to assure that he can pull all these . matters together. If he is able to do so, I would certainly recommend that he be continued within the district. If he ' is either unwilling or unable to do so, then I would have to recommend that his contract not be renewed. |