Focus Groups, Survey Part of Region 15 Superintendent Search

From Region 15: The Region 15 Board of Education is inviting Middlebury and Southbury residents to take part in focus groups and an online survey to identify leadership characteristics that the community wants in the next superintendent

An online survey will be open May 1-14 and focus groups will be held May 9-10. The survey can be accessed through the district’s website at www.region15.org/SuperintendentSearch.

Consultants with the Cooperative Educational Services Executive Searches division will hold focus groups on the following schedule:

May 9

• 8:30 a.m.: Pomperaug High School students
• 10 a.m.: District and school administrators
• 11 a.m.: PTO Advisory Council
• 1 p.m.: Public officials
• 2 p.m.: Central Office staff
• 3 p.m.: High school and middle school teachers
• 4 p.m.: Elementary school teachers

May 10

• 6:30 p.m.: Parents and community

The meeting with Pomperaug students will be in Room 422 at the high school and the May 10 meeting with parents and community will be in the high school’s All Purpose Room. All other meetings will be in the Central Office Conference Room at 286 Whittemore Road in Middlebury.

A new superintendent is expected to be named in late May to replace Dr. Elizabeth Feser, who is retiring at the end of the school year.

Cooperative Educational Services of Trumbull was selected by the Board of Education to conduct a nationwide search. The C.E.S. consultants, Tom Jokubaitis and Jim Ritchie, have distinguished careers in Connecticut schools that include time as superintendents, principals and consultants. Jokubaitis was a longtime superintendent in Wolcott and has been an interim superintendent in several places, including Region 15 and Torrington.

C.E.S. is one the six Regional Educational Services Centers created by the state to provide support and services to school districts and communities. Its Executive Searches division has located qualified candidates to fill superintendent, principal and other school administrative positions for districts and schools throughout Connecticut.

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