Area Associate Superintendent vacancy

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Sarah Sirgo will probably be promoted as she's very front-facing, but Donna Redmond Jones could be in the mix as well.

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Why not consider candidates outside of MCPS?

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Anonymous wrote:The area 1 director of course.

There are three area 1 directors.

The best one!

Dyson came from outside MCPS and was just passing through to the next promotion. Many of the Directors don’t have experience or have had problems. MCPS will look outside of MCPS for Dyson’s replacement.

Just passing through for 23 years? She started with MCPS in 1999, and has been a teacher, SDT, AP, principal, director, and associate superintendent.

Nope. According to her MCPS bio, she started teaching in 1999. She has held positions in Charles County for part of those “23” years. She jumped around for the next promotion.

What a weird thing to be so insistent about. She was an AP in Charles County for one year; the rest of her career she has been in MCPS.

She's a professional troll or MCPS hater. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

It’s also hard to know how much time MCPS PR and communications staff spend posting throughout the day. MCPS, including Dr. Dyson, isn’t as wonderful as some would like this forum to believe.

Frederick County is apparently very interested in hiring MCPS central office staff. Scott Murphy is also leaving for FCPS.

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Ah, sorry to see Scott Murphy go, but good for him and lucky for FCPS!

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Very sorry to lose both of them to FCPS. They were great advocates for children and their respective staffs.

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Anonymous wrote:The area 1 director of course.

There are three area 1 directors.

The best one!

Dyson came from outside MCPS and was just passing through to the next promotion. Many of the Directors don’t have experience or have had problems. MCPS will look outside of MCPS for Dyson’s replacement.

Just passing through for 23 years? She started with MCPS in 1999, and has been a teacher, SDT, AP, principal, director, and associate superintendent.

Nope. According to her MCPS bio, she started teaching in 1999. She has held positions in Charles County for part of those “23” years. She jumped around for the next promotion.

What a weird thing to be so insistent about. She was an AP in Charles County for one year; the rest of her career she has been in MCPS.

She's a professional troll or MCPS hater. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

It’s also hard to know how much time MCPS PR and communications staff spend posting throughout the day. MCPS, including Dr. Dyson, isn’t as wonderful as some would like this forum to believe.

Frederick County is apparently very interested in hiring MCPS central office staff. Scott Murphy is also leaving for FCPS.

Scott Murphy seems very committed to education - he turned around Watkins Mill a while back. Frederick County wants our staff just as Baltimore County did when Dr. Williams was appointed as super. He brought along Brian Scriven, Myriam Yarborough, Mildred Charley-Greene, and Eric Minus with him, among many others.

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Meanwhile MCPS hires replacements from PG County Public Schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile MCPS hires replacements from PG County Public Schools.

This troubles you?

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PP here - MCPS needs to take a long, hard look at what's causing staff to flee. I'm school based and I've never seen so many young teachers resigning. I'm halfway through my career or I'd be out too. MCPS is such a toxic organization.

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Anonymous wrote:PP here - MCPS needs to take a long, hard look at what's causing staff to flee. I'm school based and I've never seen so many young teachers resigning. I'm halfway through my career or I'd be out too. MCPS is such a toxic organization.

Same at our school. Two principals in four years has shaken confidence in staff. Many older staff members retired. Mid career staff left for other schools. Young staff went to other school districts or left teaching altogether.

There’s no long term planning to support teachers in MCPS. More and more is expected from teachers with extremely large class sizes and school administrators do not care about teacher burn out. Administrators have their own agenda and that is solely to get that next promotion. You see it at the school level and Central Office. The needs of teachers and students is not the top priority despite the propaganda by Central Office.

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Anonymous wrote:PP here - MCPS needs to take a long, hard look at what's causing staff to flee. I'm school based and I've never seen so many young teachers resigning. I'm halfway through my career or I'd be out too. MCPS is such a toxic organization.

Same at our school. Two principals in four years has shaken confidence in staff. Many older staff members retired. Mid career staff left for other schools. Young staff went to other school districts or left teaching altogether.

There’s no long term planning to support teachers in MCPS. More and more is expected from teachers with extremely large class sizes and school administrators do not care about teacher burn out. Administrators have their own agenda and that is solely to get that next promotion. You see it at the school level and Central Office. The needs of teachers and students is not the top priority despite the propaganda by Central Office.

PP here. I actually have a great principal, but the reality of teaching isn't sustainable at this point. Due the pandemic and other societal issues that have been building for years our kids are coming to school with so much baggage. They're far behind from the arbitrary targets MCPS has set for kids to reach at the end of the year. Don't get me wrong, my kids have made great gains but they're still very far behind where they should be for 2nd grade. I've never had so many frustrated kids who are still learning how to "do school" after being out for so long. They're struggling with friendships, adapting to challenges, etc. The newer teachers leaving see the writing on the wall and know it is only going to get harder. Central office and lawmakers need to wake up. The lack of mental health supports, actual consequences and quality curriculum are creating a recipe for disaster.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile MCPS hires replacements from PG County Public Schools.

Still wondering why MCPS shouldn't hire candidates with experience from PCGPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile MCPS hires replacements from PG County Public Schools.

Still wondering why MCPS shouldn't hire candidates with experience from PCGPS.

DP. Maybe because it's better to recruit from school districts above a C-?

https://www.niche.com/k12/d/prince-georges-county-public-schools-md/

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile MCPS hires replacements from PG County Public Schools.

Still wondering why MCPS shouldn't hire candidates with experience from PCGPS.

DP. Maybe because it's better to recruit from school districts above a C-?

https://www.niche.com/k12/d/prince-georges-county-public-schools-md/

Seriously? Niche rankings should determine who MCPS hires? Especially while we're in a critical teacher shortage?

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile MCPS hires replacements from PG County Public Schools.

Still wondering why MCPS shouldn't hire candidates with experience from PCGPS.

DP. Maybe because it's better to recruit from school districts above a C-?

https://www.niche.com/k12/d/prince-georges-county-public-schools-md/

Seriously? Niche rankings should determine who MCPS hires? Especially while we're in a critical teacher shortage?

Yes, seriously. Overall MCPS should be recruiting the best possible educators / talent. MCPS should be recruiting new teachers from colleges, not from a messed up County who can't get their act together.

If you don't like niche, fine. But they all say the same.

Only 4 PCGPS high schools (ranked #47, 52, 70, 94) made the top 100 in MD.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/prince-georges-county-public-schools-104078

MCPS had 22 of the top 100 in MD (ranked #1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 15, 18, 25, 28, 34, 35, 37, 42, 43, 49, 50, 54, 68, 71, 81, 97).
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools-104047

4% vs 22% meant that MCPS has about five-and-a-half times more schools in the MD top 100. If you pick staff from one of the 4 effective PCGPS schools, that's one thing, but why would you recruit staff from a school worse than your own County's? That also means that you passed over internally promoting / rewarding someone from one of the 15 schools rated higher than the best school in PCGPS, which I would think is insulting to your own staff and teachers?

If you find that new teachers don't want to come to MCPS, that's because of MCPS leadership. Word gets around if a CO treats teachers like cattle or has personal agendas. Teachers want to go to the best schools to educate children. But if the CO only supports the rotten apples, well, that word gets around as well. Until MCPS admits it has a leadership failure, things won't improve.