News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
Thirty-five community members, teachers, and administrators on the Sisters schools superintendent search committee spent a very long weekend meticulously combing through 42 applications for the post that opened when current superintendent Jim Golden took the superintendent's position in the Greater Albany School District.
"We never expected to get this many - from all over the country," said school board chair Don Hedrick.
Each committee member reads each application then chooses their top 12 candidates. The district's contract search firm, Window To Leadership, a government leadership training and executive search firm out of West Linn, will compile the results of the committee's work and on Thursday will come up with a slate of finalists.
Hedrick said the committee won't know how many finalists they have to interview until that process is completed.
The district contracted with Window To Leadership for $7,500 plus expenses.
The firm certainly succeeded in bringing in applications. Hedrick is pleased.
"It's better to have more than not enough," he said.
The district aims to have a new superintendent in the saddle by July 1.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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