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up to it, we need to have a talk or you need to go elsewhere,” Mr. Estabrook countered. “There’s nothing wrong with evaluating our coaches but it won’t do anything to solve the public relations problem we got into last spring,” Mr. Oliver replied.
“What kind of feedback are we going to be giving these coaches before the end of the season (when the evaluation forms are completed)?” asked Nancy Reeve.
Frequency and timing of evaluation visits to practice sessions have not been set, the superintendent answered. “We don’t need a lot of folks running about while a team is practicing. It can cause real problems,” he said. But evaluations will begin early enough so that problem areas can be brought to the coach’s attention - “in either written or verbal form” — while the season is underway, Mr. Estabrook assured the School Board. “Underlying anything like this is a basic philosophy. The forms are ratings, but their primary purpose is for improvement - to help people to improve.”
Mr. Estabrook reminded the School Board members that they too had heard the “comments and concerns .. . the criticism last spring by some in rather clipped, straight form.” (Reportedly, these criticisms were voiced by both individuals and groups at meetings with School Board members and administrators at the high school and in the school board office.) “I don’t agree with all the criticisms, but I do think an evaluation is appropriate,” said the superintendent, as the board voted unanimously to begin the program this year. “However, I don’t want to be heard saying that we have big problems in our coaching ranks. I don’t think we do have big problems in our coaching ranks,” Mr. Estabrook emphasized.
In other action at last week’s meeting, the School Board:
• received copies of the schedule of gifted and talented enrichment programs for this year, a special education handbook for teachers detailing regulations and procedures for placement and the Standards of Learning language arts curriculum guide which sets out the minimum learning expectations for grades kindergarten through 12th.
• agreed to hold driver education fees at $25.
• approved a new form and fee schedule for use of school buildings.
• accepted the offer to be school nurse from Frances Thornton, whom Superintendent Fstabrook described as “solid gold.”
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