Superintendent Prepares for School Opening

For Superintendent of Schools Diana Rigby, the summer months weren't spent idly dipping her feet into cool waters by a beach.

Rather, Rigby said she worked with the district to hire 30 new employees throughout the system, consulted with a chef from Sustainable Food Systems with the food services staff to offer more nutritious lunches; oversaw the development of the bus routes that are now elsewhere on Concord Patch, and participated in interviews to hire five teachers at the high school; three at the middle school; seven elementary teachers and 12 support staff.

She said when school opens on Sept. 7, the district will welcome 3,154 students.

Kelly Clough is the new principal at Thoreau School and Spyros Saucier is the new transportation manager. A new business analyst is Matt Wells.

Rigby said 214 district employees worked with department teams to revise and develop new carriculum units using new software, while 125 educators participated in training programs in Activinspire, Moodle and First Class technologies.

The IT department installed 16 new servers, RAID storage, upgraded Frist Class, replaced all non=Intel MACS, upgraded all workstations and added wireless base stations and a new internal video server for firewalls.

Teacher Orientation is Wednesday morning, Sept. 1 at Concord-Carlisle where Dr. Tony Wagner will present, "Educating in the 21st century: new skills, all students." Rigby said the CCHS PTG has invited Wagner to speak to parents in early October.