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Board interviewing for superintendent search
Springfield board members will begin interviewing search firms tonight to find a new superintendent and a permanent high school campus director for the 2009-10 school year.
The board will hold a special board meeting this evening, Nov. 19, and Nov. 25 and will interview firms in executive session.
Both positions are currently filled by interim appointees: Don Thompson will serve as interim superintendent through the summer and JoEtta Cooper is the interim campus director.
Thompson came to the district this summer after retired superintendent Jean Harper announced her resignation in the spring. Cooper was the project consolidation manager for the high school and took over on a temporary basis after Hubert Watson, originally hired to be the high school campus director, was moved to a central office position overseeing middle school academics in the district. He has since resigned to take a job as a principal at a South-Western City Schools high school.
The board plans to launch a national search to fill these positions.
I’ll have more on the process from here after the board chooses a firm and lays out a plan. But for now, what qualities do you think are most important in Springfield’s next superintendent?
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By Clark Co resident
November 19, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this
The next superintendent of the Springfield City Schools should be experienced in working in an urban school setting and can work well with our school board and building administrators. Testing is an important facet of public schools these days, however, I would like to see less emphasis placed on requiring teachers to give assessments to students and more emphasis on differentiated instruction for all students so that they learn according to their capabilities.