A message from the Superintendent

March 14, 2013

Dear Seattle Public Schools community:

At Seattle Public Schools, our regional Executive Directors of Schools play an important role in ensuring all of our students are receiving excellent classroom instruction.

In addition to evaluating principals in their region, the Executive Directors coach principals by observing classrooms, developing systems of collecting and analyzing data, offering support and helping to build a regional network for our educators.

As many of you know, Michael Tolley, who served as one of the two Executive Directors of the Southeast Region, is now our Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning.

Bree Dusseault, who shared the other Executive Director responsibilities, left in February. Since then, Michael has been filling in, along with support from other executive directors, with both positions. At this time, we need to ensure we have a team in place for the rest of the year, while we conduct a search for the new Executive Director of Schools for the Southeast Region.
 
In 2010 ,a commitment was made to have two Executive Director of Schools for the Southeast Region for two school years (2011-12 and 2012-13). As that timeframe is about to expire and given our current budget situation, we have made a decision that the second Southeast Executive Director of Schools position will not be filled.

Mr. Tolley will continue his involvement in the Southeast, but I am pleased to announce an interim support team led by Michael Starosky, Human Resources Consulting Principal, who will provide coaching, peer-to-peer and non-evaluative technical support to the principals.

Additionally, our team of Executive Directors will provide professional development, supervision and evaluation of Southeast region principals through the end of the school year.

We expect to hire a permanent Executive Director of Schools for the Southeast Region before the school year ends, and we will seek input from staff, family and the community as part of the process.

I want to thank Michael Tolley, Michael Starosky and our Executive Directors of Schools for the team effort in ensuring the Southeast region has continued strong leadership and support this year.

Sincerely,



José Banda
Superintendent
Seattle Public Schools

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