A response to : Miller To Leave 'Gansett
- Oh yes, but clean up the back parking lot before you go ! Take the apple trees you want to plant with you. They will cost more to maintain than they will be worth. Take any other half ass ideas with you, and lets hope the School Committee where you are going is a strong one, so the community still has money to run the town when you are through. My opinion, Bev.Delete
I am from Pioneer Valley where this nightmare came to . We need to know about this woman and if she has issues with Gays? She is totally destroying our school spirit and we are losing very important people to our kids including paras .Please we need to know what she did to you . Basically bullying our teachersDelete
accepts superintendent POST at Pioneer Valley Regional schools
Eryn Dion
News Staff Writer
“Everything is set and ready to go,” Ms. Miller said, adding that she will sign the new contract on Wednesday.
Ms. Miller’s departure comes at a time when school officials are beginning to reassess the needs of the district, exploring possible reconfigurations in staffing and administration to better serve students. The hiring of interim Principal John Jasinski — who has 34 years working in the district — is part of that process, Ms. Miller explained, and she wants to ensure there is a clear path forward before starting her new position.
“I’ll try to work on a transition plan for them but also for here,” Ms. Miller said. “I want to make sure that everything is really nailed down before I move on.”
In her six years with Narragansett, Ms. Miller said she has strived to make gains academically — helping to institute new curriculum that has aided the middle school with achieving Level 1 status, and assisting the high school in maintaining the same standing — as well as pursued projects such as the new biomass boiler in the middle/high school building that improve the district as a whole.
“All that work is done, so I think someone else can come in and continue it along,” the superintendent said.
Coming from a finance background, Ms. Miller said she is looking forward to once again holding a position where she is both superintendent and business manager. The Pioneer Valley job, she said, drew her in because, like Narragansett, it is a regional district, spanning the towns of Northfield, Bernardston, Leyden and Warwick.
“I love regional school districts,” she said. “I love that interaction.”
For her first year, Ms. Miller said she hopes to jump right in and craft a strategic plan that will guide the district academically and administratively over the next several years.
“The challenge of being a new superintendent — which is what I like — is that you can’t come with preconceived ideas about anything,” she said.
“The fun part is I get to go in and do an entry plan and talk to everybody — much like I did here — and find out what they are really proud of, and also what they might want to change.”
The superintendent said she is looking to finish out her career in Pioneer Valley, and hopes to become more involved with the four communities that make up the district.
Ms. Miller came to Narragansett in 2009 as the assistant superintendent and business manager, becoming superintendent in 2012. School Committee members have said that they will likely select an interim superintendent before mounting a full-scale search for a new chief administrator.
You poor people at the Pioneer School District. Oh where do I start ? Maybe when Ms. Miller kept telling the people in Templeton how we did not contribute enough, and were under funding the School District. A man from our town had to sit with Ms. Miller and show her a number of times how she was wrong, before she could understand it. Let me see, the very worse Town Meeting in the history of this Town comes to mind. The residents of Templeton voted no, not once but three times, at the polls, before it was pushed through at a Special Town Meeting, where half the people who were in the cafeteria were not counted. This Town is so divided, most people do not have a clue, but I do because I talk to them. People who always attended the Annual Town Meeting, boycotted the last one because they feel their votes do not matter. Only 40 people showed up, and very few people voted in May. When Ms. Miller says she really needs the money, don't believe it. She has no problem taking from the Town who was/is in a financial bind, with no consideration for anyone else. I could go on and on, but I will let someone else have a turn.
ReplyDeleteDid you have a large teacher turn over with her ? and can you explain.
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