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The Pleasanton school board will hold a special closed-session meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday to discuss the proposed contract for David Haglund, the Santa Ana schools administrator selected as the finalist for PUSD’s superintendent vacancy.
The meeting comes days after Pleasanton trustees, district administrators and union representatives met in closed session with community members and colleagues in Santa Ana Unified School District to interview them about Haglund, Ed.D., who currently works as Santa Ana’s deputy superintendent of educational services and chief academic officer. Those site visits took place Friday and Monday.
A board vote on the superintendent contract and appointment is currently scheduled for next week’s regular board meeting on June 13, PUSD spokesman Patrick Gannon said Tuesday.
Wednesday’s special meeting will be held in the district office boardroom at 4665 Bernal Ave.
Given the recent bond measure, why isn’t the district looking for someone who has managed a large-scale building modernization effort?
I have read the initiative he sponsored http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ccrov/pdf/2012/january/12002km.pdf
I understand ‘virtual schools.’ I have looked at the Educational Options Center webpage https://www.rusdlink.org/domain/2455I he directed and understand the need for expelled students to get access to an education as well as the need for continuation programs.
I also get the idea that if schools replace credentialed teachers with private and public on-line content deliverers and students have so-called personalized ‘playlists’ beamed to them at home then as the document above says there is cost savings (there is no need to build or modernize facilities or replace teachers). I’m puzzled and have a hard time fathoming why the board would wish to embark on something like a ‘virtual school’ given the public never approved of such a concept in the bond measure.
Is the idea to have one teacher at Foothill teach sections at Foothill and beam the content to Amador at the same time or vice versa, thus somehow saving on teaching costs?
https://www.rusdlink.org/domain/2455 is the correct link for the Educational Options Center (EOC) . The above link does not work.
“Personalized” learning was included in the PUSD email sent out on Sunday in describing Haglund. It is also the word used in the description on the on-line virtual school here https://www.rusdlink.org/domain/2440 I suspect it involves students watching videos or playlists of on-line classes, without possibly the lab component in science classes perhaps (just a guess).
More information can be found here.
http://www.gettingsmart.com/2015/10/santa-ana-usds-high-tech-project-based-and-stem-focused-lab-school/