The names of four applicants for the position of Superintendent at Lockwood School will be moved forward to the Board of Trustees at their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 12. The applicants are among nine applications that the District received in their quest to find a new Superintendent.
Serving as Lockwood’s Interim Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent Don Christman was among those candidates, as were Leland Stocker, Director of Schools at St. Labre Indian Catholic School, James Drake, former educator and Senior Administrator and CFO of a company in Westmont, IL, and Monte Silk, Interim Superintendent at Colstrip School District.
The Board’s committee appointed to oversee the superintendent search, comprised of Josh Skidmore, Cory Shock and Jamie Fandrich, met last Wednesday evening to discuss their choices and how to proceed in the process. Shock said that he spent three days reviewing all of the applications in detail, the same due diligence expressed by all of the committee members.During the regular monthly meeting of the Board on Tuesday, a dramatic change was made in the candidates the Superintendent Selection Committee recommended to the Board.
The four candidates originally approved to be interviewed were reduced to two, because of new information about two of the candidates that made them unacceptable, reported Josh Skidmore. The committee voted two to one to recommend only two candidates, Leland Stocker and Don Christman. Committee member Jamie Fandrich wanted to include a third substitute candidate but her motion failed. Arrangements to interview the candidates will be announced later.
There was some struggle in whittling down the number of candidates they wanted to interview. Initially the committee pushed forward six candidates. Debra Silk, Associate Executive Director and General Counsel of the Montana School Boards Association, which has been engaged by the Board to assist in their Superintendent search, suggested that they recommend only three or four candidates for the board to interview. Silk and Fandrich attended the meeting virtually.
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