BOARD TO NARROW DOWN FIELD OF 7 APPLICANTS.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer SAUGUS - Seven applicants for the superintendent's job in the Saugus Union School District The Saugus Union School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves the Saugus, Valencia, and Canyon Country communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California. As of March 25,2006, it has 15 elementary schools. will be interviewed today and Saturday by the school board and its liaison committee The Liaison Committee is a topical committee of the British House of Commons, the lower house of the United Kingdom Parliament. It includes the Chairmen of the 30 Select Committees. . After the interviews, the groups will narrow the field to one or more finalists who will be called back for a second set of meetings. The board also plans to visit the finalists' communities. ``I think in terms of paper qualifications and in terms of references Terms of reference allude to a mutual agreement under which a command, element, or unit exercises authority or undertakes specific missions or tasks relative to another command, element, or unit. Also called TORs. , we are looking at a good crop of candidates,'' said Acting Superintendent Ron Saltinski. ``However, the interview will tell the tale.'' Saltinski said all of the candidates are from California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). , and at least two are women. The interviews will be conducted in private at the school district headquarters. Once the board has identified the top candidates, members plan to visit the applicants' communities and school districts. ``A site visit will give the board an opportunity to talk to people who are not given as references or people given in the applications,'' Saltinski said. ``They can talk to the people they want to about the person's qualifications and interpersonal skills "Interpersonal skills" refers to mental and communicative algorithms applied during social communications and interactions in order to reach certain effects or results. The term "interpersonal skills" is used often in business contexts to refer to the measure of a person's ability .'' The board may also check with the chamber of commerce and other community groups that the superintendent candidates may interact with, he said. Two dozen people applied to fill the superintendent's position, left vacant when the Gail Wickstrom was ousted three months ago in a disagreement over management styles. The California School Boards Association conducted the search for the new chief, who is expected to start July 1. Wickstrom was placed on paid leave and later asked not to finish the four months remaining on her $107,970-a-year contract. Board members said they disagreed with Wickstrom's strong management style and instead preferred a ``site-based'' decision-making decision-making, n the process of coming to a conclusion or making a judgment. decision-making, evidence-based, n a type of informal decision-making that combines clinical expertise, patient concerns, and evidence gathered from process that gives more authority to school principals. Before coming to Saugus, Wickstrom was fired from the Westminster School The Royal College of St Peter at Westminster (almost always known as Westminster School) is one of Britain's leading boys' independent schools and one of the nine public schools set out in the Public Schools Act 1868. District in Orange County. Wickstrom is the second superintendent to be ousted in eight years. In 1992, the board bought out the $80,485 remaining on Chris Wilson's contract. |
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