| Title: | Maynard -- Center of the Universe |
| Notice: | Welcome to our new digs... |
| Moderator: | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN |
| Created: | Wed Aug 06 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 20 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 509 |
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Last Thursday, the School Committee offered Donald Kennedy the job of
Superintendent of Schools. He accepted immediately, subject to
negotiation of salary and starting date.
Dr. Kennedy is presently Superintendent of the Duxbury schools. He has
been a principal, history teacher and English teacher. He also teaches
at U. Lowell, and he and the Duxbury town manager teach an adult ed.
course on Winston Churchill. His doctorate is from Harvard, in the
area of school curriculum.
Dr. Kennedy knows the town of Maynard; when he taught in Weston some
years ago, he came out here to play tuba in the town band.
Kennedy stated flatly that he wanted this job until he retires. He
plans to move from Duxbury to this area.
-Steve
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| 411.1 | A hands on super | KALVIN::MORGAN | Low-End NaC | Thu Feb 04 1993 07:36 | 5 |
Good news! From the little I had heard about each of the candidates, he
seemed to have the best makeup. I also liked his stated desire to
assist in teaching one class a day (with the approval of the teacher).
Steve
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| 411.2 | Great news! | WHIZER::NEWMAN | Alpha Personal Systems Marketing | Thu Feb 04 1993 08:30 | 4 |
Glad to hear we finally have chosen someone. I was wondering, for those of us who were not involved in the selection process, if you could give a "25-words or less" statement as to why he wanted to be superintendant in Maynard and a similar statement as to why he was selected over the other candidates | |||||
| 411.3 | HELIX::RUZICH | VAXELN Realtime Software Engineering | Mon Feb 08 1993 22:40 | 19 | |
>Glad to hear we finally have chosen someone. I was wondering, for those of us
>who were not involved in the selection process, if you could give a "25-words
>or less" statement as to why he wanted to be superintendant in Maynard ...
As near as I can tell, Dr. Kennedy believes that he can make a real
difference in Maynard. He talked about Maynard being the right size so
that positive change can impact every student, and that the citizens
were very supportive of the schools. He was very positive about the
schools' relationship with DEC, and the MEAP scores.
>and a
>similar statement as to why he was selected over the other candidates
You're really asking what each School Committee member thought. Since
people don't always bare their souls in a public meeting, I really
couldn't give an accurate anwer. I do think that the search committee
named four good candidates.
-Steve
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