Superintendents face unprecedented challenges guiding schools through social upheaval, technology changes, new policies, and decreased funding. As a result, effectively sharing best practices with stakeholders has never been more important for student achievement. Responsibilities have shifted from facilities and transportation to creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking. Studies show problems from improper data management, curriculum analysis, and human resources use, including privacy concerns and lack of community support. Redefining return on investment as return on value is an opportunity for superintendents to participate in strategic budgeting and use next-generation data management, though it also presents new administrative challenges.

1. REDEFINING DISTRICT ROI:
RETURN ON VALUE AS THE
NEW BENCHMARK

2. How changing a standard of fiscal success can
create better outcomes in education?
 Superintendents of K-12 public school districts
throughout the nation face unprecedented
challenges in guiding their schools through a
perfect storm of social upheaval, revolutionary
technology, changing educational policy, and
decreased public funding. As a result, the ability of
a superintendent to discern and effectively share
best practices with his or her school board, and
with teachers, parents, students, business
leaders, legislators, and community members—
indeed, with all stakeholders in the district
ecosystem—has never been more important for
excellence in education administration and
student achievement.

3. Data Driven
 A survey of superintendents conducted a few
years ago by the Education Writers Association
documents the rapidly changing nature of school
administration. In its reporting of the survey
results, the EWA cites Paul D. Houston, executive
director of the American Association of School
Administrators from 1994-2008, who notes that
responsibilities of superintendents during previous
decades generally concerned “B” words:
buildings, buses, and books [1]. Those were
supplanted in recent years by what the National
Education Association has called “The Four
“Cs”—creativity, collaboration, communication,
and critical thinking

4. New Metrics for a Better ROI
 For more than a decade, an increasing
number of studies, reports, and news accounts
have detailed the effects of improper
management of student information,
curriculum analysis, and human resources.
Privacy concerns, inability of staff to record or
use data appropriately, cost overruns, lack of
community buy-in—these problems and more
appear in education headlines regularly.

5. Leading with a value
 As such, helping stakeholders see an ROI as
an ROV—redefining the return on investment
into the return on value—is a significant
opportunity for today’s school superintendents
to participate in best-practices budgeting
strategies with their boards. However, next-
generation data management creates limitless
possibilities for number-crunching, which in
turn presents new administrative challenges.

6.  To know the New Metrics for a Better ROI,
visit the below link:
http://education.cioreview.com/whitepaper/redefining-
district-roi-return-on-value-as-new-benchmark-wid-
498.html