Associate superintendent leaving MCPS

[Anonymous]

Who is the interim director now? Who is covering the schools and overseeing the principals Jones oversaw?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS central office apparently went after principals and admin over their standardized test scores...this sent admins into panic mode and they started taking it out on the teachers. Things are really bad right now. My entire building wants to quit. MCPS is collapsing.

Oh, to be a fly on the wall at that A&S meeting. Of course, central office doesn’t know that raising scores is a years-long process that depends on factors such as, oh, I don’t know, not changing the curriculum more than you change clothes, giving kids wraparound support, respecting teachers and modernizing the profession based on recent trends, I could go on …

NP - I would add lowering class sizes would be important. Students have lingering gaps. Smaller class sizes would help teachers meet the needs of their students. Raising teacher salaries would also be key in filling vacancies.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a situation where I really would’ve wanted Dr. Sarah Sirgo to stay in MCPS. She was a great principal and cluster director, very motivational in her words, respected across the system. Now she’s a Chief of Staff for FCPS (following Dyson) bc their deputy superintendent is out the door soon, stewing over not getting the superintendency permanently. She obviously wants to succeed him in a couple of years.

MCPS has to do a better job with leadership and succession planning. They’ve lost so much since COVID. Who would even want this associate superintendent role?

She was one of the few people in central office I thought did a good job.

I loved her. She saw the mess MCPS was becoming, saw that McKnight probably didn’t think of her favorably (for whatever reason she’s always had her own inner circle), and decided to become an advisor to a superintendent in a calm county politically while protecting her future. What a great job of playing the game and rightfully focusing on your own ambitions while doing right by kids.

Sirgo will be a superintendent within the next 5-7 years. Definitely watching out for her

I’m sure she is strategizing for that ultimate promotion. But that only highlights what is wrong with the MCPS administration gene pool. Constantly looking for their next promotion instead of focusing on a long term plan to make schools better.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a situation where I really would’ve wanted Dr. Sarah Sirgo to stay in MCPS. She was a great principal and cluster director, very motivational in her words, respected across the system. Now she’s a Chief of Staff for FCPS (following Dyson) bc their deputy superintendent is out the door soon, stewing over not getting the superintendency permanently. She obviously wants to succeed him in a couple of years.

MCPS has to do a better job with leadership and succession planning. They’ve lost so much since COVID. Who would even want this associate superintendent role?

She was one of the few people in central office I thought did a good job.

I loved her. She saw the mess MCPS was becoming, saw that McKnight probably didn’t think of her favorably (for whatever reason she’s always had her own inner circle), and decided to become an advisor to a superintendent in a calm county politically while protecting her future. What a great job of playing the game and rightfully focusing on your own ambitions while doing right by kids.

Sirgo will be a superintendent within the next 5-7 years. Definitely watching out for her

I’m sure she is strategizing for that ultimate promotion. But that only highlights what is wrong with the MCPS administration gene pool. Constantly looking for their next promotion instead of focusing on a long term plan to make schools better.

You can have an eye on the next thing and still make a difference for kids. She did both.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a situation where I really would’ve wanted Dr. Sarah Sirgo to stay in MCPS. She was a great principal and cluster director, very motivational in her words, respected across the system. Now she’s a Chief of Staff for FCPS (following Dyson) bc their deputy superintendent is out the door soon, stewing over not getting the superintendency permanently. She obviously wants to succeed him in a couple of years.

MCPS has to do a better job with leadership and succession planning. They’ve lost so much since COVID. Who would even want this associate superintendent role?

She was one of the few people in central office I thought did a good job.

I loved her. She saw the mess MCPS was becoming, saw that McKnight probably didn’t think of her favorably (for whatever reason she’s always had her own inner circle), and decided to become an advisor to a superintendent in a calm county politically while protecting her future. What a great job of playing the game and rightfully focusing on your own ambitions while doing right by kids.

Sirgo will be a superintendent within the next 5-7 years. Definitely watching out for her

I’m sure she is strategizing for that ultimate promotion. But that only highlights what is wrong with the MCPS administration gene pool. Constantly looking for their next promotion instead of focusing on a long term plan to make schools better.

You can have an eye on the next thing and still make a difference for kids. She did both.

What impact can you make when you are jumping from position to position every few years? No one in MCPS administration has a long term vision or goals.

[Anonymous]

Leadership leads by example. Is it any surprise why teachers are also leaving MCPS for better jobs elsewhere?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a situation where I really would’ve wanted Dr. Sarah Sirgo to stay in MCPS. She was a great principal and cluster director, very motivational in her words, respected across the system. Now she’s a Chief of Staff for FCPS (following Dyson) bc their deputy superintendent is out the door soon, stewing over not getting the superintendency permanently. She obviously wants to succeed him in a couple of years.

MCPS has to do a better job with leadership and succession planning. They’ve lost so much since COVID. Who would even want this associate superintendent role?

She was one of the few people in central office I thought did a good job.

I loved her. She saw the mess MCPS was becoming, saw that McKnight probably didn’t think of her favorably (for whatever reason she’s always had her own inner circle), and decided to become an advisor to a superintendent in a calm county politically while protecting her future. What a great job of playing the game and rightfully focusing on your own ambitions while doing right by kids.

Sirgo will be a superintendent within the next 5-7 years. Definitely watching out for her

I’m sure she is strategizing for that ultimate promotion. But that only highlights what is wrong with the MCPS administration gene pool. Constantly looking for their next promotion instead of focusing on a long term plan to make schools better.

That’s not why she left MCPS. She clearly didn’t like the vision and style of the MCPS superintendent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a situation where I really would’ve wanted Dr. Sarah Sirgo to stay in MCPS. She was a great principal and cluster director, very motivational in her words, respected across the system. Now she’s a Chief of Staff for FCPS (following Dyson) bc their deputy superintendent is out the door soon, stewing over not getting the superintendency permanently. She obviously wants to succeed him in a couple of years.

MCPS has to do a better job with leadership and succession planning. They’ve lost so much since COVID. Who would even want this associate superintendent role?

She was one of the few people in central office I thought did a good job.

I loved her. She saw the mess MCPS was becoming, saw that McKnight probably didn’t think of her favorably (for whatever reason she’s always had her own inner circle), and decided to become an advisor to a superintendent in a calm county politically while protecting her future. What a great job of playing the game and rightfully focusing on your own ambitions while doing right by kids.

Sirgo will be a superintendent within the next 5-7 years. Definitely watching out for her

I’m sure she is strategizing for that ultimate promotion. But that only highlights what is wrong with the MCPS administration gene pool. Constantly looking for their next promotion instead of focusing on a long term plan to make schools better.

You can have an eye on the next thing and still make a difference for kids. She did both.

What impact can you make when you are jumping from position to position every few years? No one in MCPS administration has a long term vision or goals.

So if you’re offered a promotion to be the right-hand woman to your boss (who you admire), you won’t take it, even if it means leaving?