6167 Deeside Drive
Dublin, OH 43017
FAX: 614-764-4709
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
- Diverse experience as a superintendent of schools.
- Excellent leadership skills in curriculum, instruction, staff selection, and professional development
- Published in the field of strategic planning.
- Skilled in working with the public with professionalism and sensitivity.
- Strong advocate for a challenging and quality education for all students.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and writing skills.
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC PREPARATION
Ph.D. in Administration, Curriculum and Supervision in Education
From the University of Northern Colorado at Greeley, CO - 1980M.A. in Special Education
From the University of Northern Colorado at Greeley, CO - 1967B.S. in Elementary Education
From Montana State University at Bozeman, MT - 1964
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT; 1994-present
Consulting in special education, secondary education, long-range planning, policy analysis and revision
- Presently providing long-term consulting services to the Manchester, NH School District through Comprehensive Educational Services - New England School Development Council (NESDEC) of Marborough, MA. Consultation includes special education, secondary education, policy development and budgeting.
Haverhill, MA
City school district with an ethnically diverse school enrollment of 8,500 challenged by a rapidly growing student population
- Served as Chief Executive Officer for a seven-member school committee.
- Administered a budget exceeding $43 million.
- Provided leadership for a $22 million construction of two elementary schools.
- Completed a master plan for building construction and rehabilitation of the middle and high schools
- Restructured the high school administration to support integrated curriculum and incorporate School-to-Career.
- Contributed leadership for the development of a School-to-Career model which resulted in the awarding of a #350,000 grant.
- Initiated a collaborative process with administrators and teachers to establish performance standards and evaluation instruments.
- Completed an organizational audit to include an implementation plan of accountability of student achievement related to effectiveness indicators.
- Initiated the completion of a five-year technology plan.
- Provided leadership in the implementation of the Massachusetts Education Reform Act.
Urban school district with a student enrollment of 9,600 which is 54% minority
- Served as Chief Executive Officer for a nine-member board.
- Administered a budget exceeding $50 million.
- Initiated an Effectiveness Audit to establish baseline data for strategic planning.
- Addressed segregated tracking of elementary students.
- Initiated the development and implementation of a model Tech-Prep program.
- Provided leadership for establishment of an elementary accelerated school site.
- Established summer school to include accelerated learning programs for students with multiple grade retention’s.
- Implemented an elementary lead teacher program to recognize teacher leadership skills.
- Administrated a county-wide special education center and adult education program for seven school districts.
- Administrated a vocational education program for two school districts.
Claremont, Cornish, and Unity, NH
Representing a rural and industrial population with a student enrollment of 2410
- Served as Chief Executive Officer for three school boards.
- Administered combined budgets exceeding $14 million.
- Implemented school-based management based upon the Effective Schools model
- Supported the implementation of a developmental policy.
- Converted the junior high and middle school concept.
- Provided leadership for the passage of a bond for facilities renovations resulting in the high school receiving accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
- Sought and received a district appropriation for construction of regional vocational-technical cneter.
- Served on steering committee for state funding litigation.
- Restructured budgeting procedures, including a computerized financial management system.
- Facilitated School Board/Staff labor negotiations.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Urban school district with a diverse student enrollment of 30,000+ in 53 schools
- Supervised district-wide staff development which included administrative internships, performance evaluation training, teacher-mentor program, substance abuse prevention programs, and building-level accountability training.
- Revised teacher evaluation process.
Internal Coordinator of Strategic Planning (1985-1987)
Chapter I Program Supervisor (1983-1985)
Supervised and evaluated staff of 74 in 26 schools.
District-wide Quality Circle Trainer.
Administrative Intern, Planning Research, and Evaluation (1982-1983)
- Conducted needs assessments and program evaluations
- Expanded district/community Resource bank
- Monitored enrollment
- Established administrative intern program.
Sixth Grade Teacher (1980-1982)
Sabbatical Leave (1979-1980)
Doctoral Studies and Internship in Elementary Administration and Staff Development
Sixth Grade Teacher (1977-1979)
Resource Teacher for Learning Disabled K-6 (1972-1977)
Itinerant Teacher for Learning Disabled K-6 (1970-1972)
SCHOOL DISTRICT 2; 1970
Billings, Montana - A city with a student enrollment of 17,000
Fourth Grade Teacher 1964-1966
SCHOOL DISTRICT 6; 1968
Greeley, Colorado - A university community with a student enrollment of 10,000
Fellowship Student, University of Northern Colorado (1966-1967)
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Participated as a member of the Harvard Superintendents’ Roundtable.
- Served as a member of the Massachusetts Superintendents’ Association Technology Task Force.
- Served as a Regional Board Member of the National Effective Schools Institute.
- Selected as a participant in the Third Annual Congress for Exemplary Superintendents.
- Selected as a participant in the South Carolina State Superintendent’s Innovators’ Conference.
- Served as a member of the South Carolina State Superintendent’s Advisory Council.
- Served on the South Carolina School Board Association’s Strategic Planning Team.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT PROFILE
- Vice-President of Business/Education Partnerships of Greater Haverhill Chamber of Commerce
- Haverhill Arts Association
- Friends of the Haverhill Library Board
- Rotary (on Literacy Project Committee and Paul Harris Fellow)
- Spartanburg 2000 Steering Committee
- Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce Education Committee
- Spartanburg County Business and Industry Council (chairman of evaluation of the strategic plan)
- Cities-in-School Board
- Big Brother/Big Sister Board
- United Way Village Center Advisory Committee (a comprehensive family-focused project)
- Spartanburg County Consensus Project Race Relations Committee
- University of South Carolina at Spartanburg Practitioner Advisory Board
- Spartanburg County Consensus Project "Stop the Violence" Planning Committee
RELATED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Consensus Building: Skills Training for Moving from Conflict to Consensus and School Restructuring: Round Two with Pat Dolan.
Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents and Massachusetts Association of School Committees Performance Standards for Evaluation of Professional Staff, block Scheduling, Assessment of Student Performance, Education Reform and Time on Learning, and Reauthorization of IDEA (NESDEC).
Other Related Training
- Development of School Renewal Plans
- Authentic Assessment
- Student Discipline
- Administrator Evaluation
- Teacher Evaluation.
Other Related Training
- Leader Training in Effective Schools
- Superintendents’ Effective Schools Institute.
Advanced Clinical Supervision - Madeline Hunter
Clinical Supervision - Madeline Hunter
Management in the Nineties - Bill Cook
Executive Renewal - Ivan Fitzwater
Charter member of the 1986 National Superintendents’ Academy
PUBLICATIONS
Implications for Change, Chapter Seven of "Strategic Planning for America’s Schools," published by Cambridge Management.
The Use of Educational-Based Therapy in the Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Students, an article published by the Rocky Mountain Consortium for Special Education.
A Naturalistic Inquiry into the School Organizations: A Study of the Processes of Communications, Goal-Setting, Problem-Solving, Decision-Making and Conflict Management, a doctoral dissertation.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
- "A Word, a Moment, A New Perspective Can Change A Lifetime, Address on Equity for the Annual Dinner of the Haverhill YWCA, 1995.
- "Equity in Education in Spartanburg County," at the Multicultural Conference, 1993.
- "Issues of Schooling that Impact Girls," to the American Association of University Women, 1993
- "Impact of Funding upon Achievement," to the Spartanburg Association of Educators, 1993
- "Impasse Resolution," to the New Hampshire School Boards Association, 1991
- "Strategic Planning," to the New England Association of Superintendents, 1998.
- "Evaluation and Related Staff Development for the Competent Teacher," An action lab presented with Dr. Allan Glatthorn at the Colorado Regional Issues and Trends Conference, 1986.
- "Project Excellence, A Quality Circle Program" at the National Staff Development Conference, 1985.
- "A.I.M.E. Model: Meeting the Needs of Proficient Readers," a micro-workshop at the International Reading Association Convention, Atlanta, GA, 1983.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of School Administrators (Delegate-at-Large, 1995)
American Association of School Administrators Legislative Corps (1998-1999)
Massachusetts Association for School Superintendents
Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development
National; Staff Development Council (National Presenter, 1985)
Effective Schools Institute (Regional Board Member 1993-1995)
Phi Delta Kappa (Local Chapter Treasurer, 1986)
Horace Mann League