Katonah-Lewisboro to Appoint Andrew Selesnick New School Superintendent

Photo: Andrew Selesnick. Photo credit: Contributed

The Katonah-Lewisboro School District is expected to appoint current Chappaqua Central Assistant Superintendent Andrew Selesnick as its new school superintendent, replacing Paul Kreutzer, district officials announced Friday.

Kreutzer resigned abruptly in January, 2014, under what the district said were irreconcilable differences over the direction of the system. The school district hired Executive Search Firm, Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates to find Kreutzer’s replacement, which led to Selesnick.

“The Board believes that Andrew will be a strong educational leader for our school system,” said Board of Education President Marjorie Schiff in a statement. “Before we began our search for a new superintendent we asked the community for its views on the characteristics that would make a good superintendent for KLSD and Andrew possesses these qualities. We are confident that our school community will be impressed with him once they get a chance to meet and work with him.”

The board intends to formally make the appointment at its Feb. 13 meeting, and Selesnick would begin on July 1.

In addition to his current role as Assistant Superintendent for Leadership Development and Human Resources for the Chappaqua Central School District, Selesnick also served as Principal of Horace Greeley High School.

Below is the full press release of Selesnick’s selection:

The Katonah-Lewisboro Board of Education intends to appoint Andrew Selesnick as Superintendent of Schools at a special meeting to be held one week from today on February 13th in the John Jay High School Library at 7:30 p.m.

Mr. Selesnick emerged as the finalist from a strong field of forty candidates. He currently serves as Assistant Superintendent for Leadership Development and Human Resources in Chappaqua Central School District where he began his career in education twenty-three years ago as a high school English teacher and where he served for nine years as Principal of Horace Greeley High School.

The Board of Education engaged the services of the Executive Search Firm, Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates (HYA) in August 2014 and has been focused on the superintendent search for the past six months.

“The Board believes that Andrew will be a strong educational leader for our school system,” said Board of Education President Marjorie Schiff. “Before we began our search for a new superintendent we asked the community for its views on the characteristics that would make a good superintendent for KLSD and Andrew possesses these qualities. We are confident that our school community will be impressed with him once they get a chance to meet and work with him.”

Mr. Selesnick holds a BA in English from Tufts University, along with an MA from Tufts in Teaching. He has successfully completed the Future School Administrators Academy, Columbia University/BOCES and the Future Superintendents Academy, and the NY State Council of School Superintendents/Leadership for Educational Achievement Foundation. He is currently part of the Education Policy Fellowship Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Mr. Selesnick is expected to begin his work with Katonah-Lewisboro on or about July 1, 2015.

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