Monday, March 25, 2013
District has 22 candidates seeking to be schools' next superintendent.
The search firm hired by the Watchung Hills Regional Board of Education to assist with the search for the district's next superintendent has identified what the school's stakeholders want: a technology-oriented, fiscally-savvy, curriculum guru, with experience leading a regional school district, who "keeps students first in all decisions." Piece of cake... William Librera and Dwight Pfennig, of Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates, presented the list of criteria compiled through public meetings March 5 and March 6, as well as at meetings with staff and board members and an online survey, identifying the "common characteristics" stakeholders identified, at the March 21 board meeting. "We spent a lot of time with people in the community …
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Consulting firm looking to identify characteristics stakeholders' want in next superintendent.
Residents are invited to attend two public forums scheduled for next week to provide input on the search for Watchung Hills Regional's next superintendent. The forums are scheduled for 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. March 5 and March 6 in the school's Performing Arts Center, and will be conducted by Bill Librera and Dwight Pfennig, of Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates, the consulting firm that specializes in assisting boards of education with the consideration of candidates for superintendent. HYA was hired after Superintendent Frances Stromsland announced her plans to retire at the end of the school year. The board is also looking for residents to help identify the eight most important characteristics desired in the new superintendent, and has …
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Newspaper advertisement to cast first net for next supintendent.
An advertisement set to appear in Sunday's Star-Ledger education section of the "help wanted" classified ads touts the 100-acre campus of Watchung Hills Regional High School, as well as its ranking in Newsweek magazine studies, and the number of national merit scholarship finalists and semi-finalists. As well as "The Board of Education seeks an outstanding leader to continue to grow the extraordinary progress the district has made through the collaborative leadership of the present Superintendent, who shall retire after 12 years in the district." And with that, the board can cross off the first step in its timeline to find a replacement for Frances Stromsland, after she retires at the end of the school year. The next steps will involve …
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
After hearing two proposals, board members choose Hazard, Young and Attea.
The Watchung Hills Regional Board of Education selected Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates, of Rosemont, Ill., to conduct the search for a new superintendent after Frances Stromsland retires at the end of the year. At Monday's meeting, board members heard proposals from New Jersey School Boards Association representative Bernard Baggs and Bill Librera and Dwight Pfennig, of Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates. The NJSBA had assisted in recent superintendent searches for the Green Brook and Watchung school districts, while HYA was selected for Warren Township's search. Both proposals outlined a similar process for the search, beginning with helping the board identify criteria sought in the next superintendent, with input from the public and …
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Anthony Perrucci
9:36 am on Thursday, February 7, 2013
Kudos to all board members who voted in favor of NJSBA all you other guys and gals in favor of HYA will own the rath of taxpayers if this process costs taxpayers undue expense. BTW, make sure a contract is in place for a specified time of service before any applicant is hired so he/she does abandon the position in short order when a more appealing job offer ($$$$) comes back to them. WHRHS should… more ›