Reynoldsburg to interview five candidates for superintendent's position
Reynoldsburg Board of Education members are to interview five candidates for superintendent of Reynoldsburg City Schools on Dec. 7-8.
Both meetings are to be executive sessions, or closed meetings, for the purpose of interviewing the candidates.
The five finalists, including Reynoldsburg’s assistant superintendent, are to be whittled to a pair of finalists for interviews Dec. 12 with board of education members and “several stakeholder groups,” said Stephanie Beougher, communications director for Reynoldsburg City Schools.
The five finalists are:
David Harmon, chief of human resources, Dayton Public Schools
M. Denise Lutz, chief technology officer, Upper Arlington City Schools
Tracy Reed, chief academic officer, Sandusky City Schools
Naim Sanders, assistant superintendent, Reynoldsburg City Schools
Claude Tiller, Jr., assistant superintendent of high school transformation, Detroit Public School Community District
The announcement followed an executive session of the board Dec. 5.
“The board is impressed with the diverse experiences and characteristics that each of the applicants bring to the table, as well as their sincere interest in helping us achieve our goals while providing outstanding opportunities for the students of Reynoldsburg,” Board President Debbie Dunlap said Dec. 6.
The finalists were selected after board members, with assistance from the Educational Service Center of Central Ohio, created a superintendent profile.
“Through community engagement and surveys, we have been able to get a good sense of what our staff, families and community want in the next superintendent which we used as a board when inviting those who we felt were a good fit for our first-round interviews,” Dunlap said.
The five selected to interview were culled from 18 applicants, Dunlap said.
"As a board, we are looking forward to interviewing each of these candidates. We spent nearly five hours (Dec. 5) pouring over all 18 applicants' resumes (while) taking into consideration the results of our stakeholder interviews and surveys, along with our own views of who might be a good fit for superintendent," Dunlap said.
Our stakeholders indicated they value a leader with "achievable goals" who engages the community and is "an effective leader and strong advocate for children and families," Dunlap said.
The board of education is tentatively scheduled to select the superintendent Dec. 13. The superintendent is to begin Jan. 2, 2023, according to Beougher.
The superintended is to succeed interim Reynoldsburg Superintendent Jocelyn Cosgrave, whom board members appointed Oct. 10 and is the fourth person to act as the district’s superintendent in 2022.
Cosgrave succeeded Dan Good.
Good was named interim superintendent after Garilee Ogden, who accepted a three-year contract to succeed Melvin Brown, resigned before the start of the contract term.
Board members May 26 announced the hiring of Ogden following a search conducted with the assistance of Finding Leaders.
But Reynoldsburg is using the ESCCO for the current search.
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