This August,Andy Clinewas welcomed as the newSuperintendentof theSpencer-Owen Community School Corporationin Spencer, Indiana,afteran extensive search. Cline brings26 years of experience as a teacher, coach, athletic director, assistant principal, principal, director of learning and instruction, and assistant superintendentto the district, which contains six schools and over 2,500 students. His familiarity with the area was part of the draw for him. I have family that has lived [here], he said. It’s just a good community. Cline was also impressed by the academic progress of the district and the opportunities it provides for students, he toldSpencer Evening World. There’s really a lot of forward thinking.
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Effective Monday, Sept. 13,Dr.Jeff Hadleywas promoted from his position as assistant superintendent atAvonworthSDin Pittsburgh, Pa.,to superintendentof the district’s four schools and 1,796students. Dr. Hadley’s robust professional backgroundhe brings with him 21 years in K-12 as an educator and maintains strong active relationships inseveralregional, national and global educational leader groups such as the League of Innovative Schools, AASA’s Learning 2025 initiative, Remake Learning, Digital Promise and the A.W. Beattie Career Center Advisory Boardmade him the school board’s unanimous choice for the position of superintendent.
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The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) has selecteditsfinalists forthe 2022 National Principal of theYear.The three in the running are 2021 Georgia Principal of the YearKeith L. Ball, of Marietta High School in Marietta; 2021 Missouri Principal of the Year京艶岳鞄油堰看顎韓, of Fulton Middle School; and 2021 Massachusetts Principal of the YearTed McCarthyof Sutton High School. Each has implemented processes and programs that made them standouts: Ball took Marietta High’s state report card from a C to a B in 2019 afterinvolving students toparticipatein the leadership of the school;Houftransformed her school’s toxic culture by instituting intensive training to ensure equity and that students’ needs were being met; and one of McCarthy’s most noteworthy accomplishments wasencouraging students and teachers to play a more active role in shaping the school’s direction, resulting in a social justice group comprising 40 students and eight staff members that runs an anti-racist, anti-bias workshop for 9th-graders.
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