12/13/2023 0 Comments Uga tap formWe have a very tight safety plan across the district and it’s on par with the academic achievement, because we must keep the children and all of the other stakeholders who work in the district safe. What are some more specific things that you’re looking to target and improve? Why?īR : I want to begin with safety first. Now there are some things I’m going to have to address and I will, but generally speaking, it is to just keep everything as steady and as calm as I can as we prepare to greet and welcome our new leader. I’m not one to come in and make a whole bunch of changes or do this thing or do that thing. I can’t speak for everyone, but I know just for me personally, that has done something to my psyche. Fuhrey was the superintendent for 10 years. Change is hard, whether we realize it consciously or not, it is. I did not apply for the permanent position. I realize that I am only serving as interim superintendent. What’s your overarching goal for this upcoming school year?īR : It is to keep the calm. I learned a whole plethora of things and applied a whole plethora of skills and those skills have catapulted me to success in other roles beyond being a federal programs director. I learned the various function and object codes, as it relates to budgeting. There is no wiggle room, so I learned the respect for rules and regulations particularly in the area of finance. In that, I’ve been able to still have my hand in education as it relates to teaching children because I was a school improvement specialist, so I would go into schools, assess what was going on, provide feedback, model if need be, but then the administrative part of being a federal programs director has taken me eons higher than it I probably would have gone, as it relates to understanding things pretty quickly, because there are a bunch of federal rules and regulations and laws that you have to follow. How do you think your previous experience has prepared you for this role of interim superintendent?īR : I always go back to my days as a school improvement specialist for the federal Title I program and then ultimately a Title I coordinator and then a federal programs director. So, as I started with the opportunities in leadership, I just started reading and practicing and decided that I would go back to college and get an add on in administration. I’ve always been like a sponge who wants to learn and know everything. I just had the opportunity from people recognizing things in me and using my innate leadership ability, to put me strategically in places. Both my master’s and my specialist’s are not in administration. But I worked with principals at every school where I’ve worked, who would give me leadership opportunities in buildings, whether it was to serve as the department chair or the chair of some event or some initiative in the building. I was happy in my classroom teaching gifted English all day long. What has kept you driven in the education field to advance from being a teacher to fulfilling roles at the board level?īR : People saw things in me that I wasn’t necessarily paying attention to. But they hired me on a provisional certificate and I started teaching and the rest is history. I had not taken any classes, any of that. One of the counties that we served had an opening for a teacher. From doing school visits because we have to do school visits as part of my work as an education specialist, I just enjoyed sitting in the classes and watching the teachers and watching the children. We accepted them in ninth grade and they went all the way through with us. We did all kinds of prep things for them for college. Because I never worked in education and it was still in my heart, I started working in education for a federal program called Upward Bound and it was for students who would become first generation college students. I never worked a day after I graduated in the field of journalism.
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