001hello Chris Cooper here with a brief video announcement um I made this announcement to staff uh last week but uh the main purpose of this video is to publicly announce my retirement as a school administrator at the end of this school year so it's been a great three years uh here it was actually three years ago tomorrow that I accepted the position of superintendent Clearwater and one thing I would say to everyone is that if I had a time machine could go back three years even before we knew anything about covid and I had the same choice to make I would jump on this job to come here and work in Clearwater it's been a blessing and an honor for me and my family to be here just have the opportunity to pursue some other
002adventures and spend more time with my four grandkids and so um the timing is is right for me to take my retirement as a school administrator we do plan to stay in the area so I still hope to see many of you around as the years go by here we we love Clearwater and and everything they can communicate d uh has to offer and like I said it's been a blessing to be here so uh the rest of this announcement is about the process so the school board has already started the process of selecting a new superintendent by hiring the Kansas Association of school boards to help with the search and the promotion of this job I firmly believe this is the best superintendent job that's open in the state right now this is a
003great place to be we have a good board good Community uh great staff so it's um I think a very attractive job for a lot of people to apply for so as part of that process the board would like to seek your input as a community and what characteristics you would look for in a new superintendent so accompanying this uh there'll be an email with a link to a survey that we invite you to to fill out and give your input about what's important for Clearwater what characteristics might we need in a new superintendent here that will close on on the 7th February 7th next Tuesday so we'd ask that you um maybe take that this weekend and give that feedback to the board they will sit down and and go through that and develop
004questions and processes to look for those characteristics in the candidates who apply um so we'll also get that on our webpage hopefully on some social media we'll get that that process out there from there uh the association school boards will take applications screen those do backgrounds those type of things come to the board and um help them select candidates to interview and we hope to uh announce a new superintendent for our school district in March so that's the process as we're moving forward just wanted to publicly announce that and ask for everyone's input as we uh look for the best possible leader that we can for our district so again this is a short one that's really all I have for today lots of great things going on in our schools I'll continue to do
005these video updates for the next several months and then uh even after that hope to see many of you games and and events around the community so this is Mr Cooper signing off work hard have fun and be your best self