[Home-on-the-range] FW: Memo Regarding Madeleine's Retirement

[Susan Stanzel]

Good morning everyone,

 

It looks like my note did some good. I heard from Todd Morando this morning also. Please read the accessible memo below.

 

Susie

 

 

From: Office of the Superintendent [mailto:superintendent at kssdb.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 9:41 AM
To: Anne Gurss; Jeri Hile; Kari Howell; Kristi Sykes; Madeleine Burkindine; Menely Hogan; Nancy Johnson; Susie Stanzel; Todd Morando; Tom Anderson; Tom Page
Subject: Memo Regarding Madeleine's Retirement

 

I apologize that the memo regarding Madeleine's retirement was sent in a format that did not accommodate a screen reader. I believe the following format will solve that problem. If you continue to be unable to access it, please call me at 913-210-8111. Thank you. Marva

 

DATE:      March 24, 2017

TO:           KSSB Advisory Board

FROM:     Madeleine Burkindine

RE:           My Retirement

As some of you already know, I am retiring at the end of the school year, effective July 1st. This is a decision I have been contemplating for some time, but putting it in writing and saying it out loud to others is difficult.

 

I have enjoyed a 40-year career at KSSB, where I started as a summer school “counselor” in 1970 and 71 while still a student at KU. (I even met my husband here—a fellow summer intern.) I began teaching in 1973 and have relished my life’s work teaching children with blindness or low vision, and working with staff, parents and community as I have transitioned from teacher to principal to superintendent at KSSB and ultimately superintendent of both schools for the blind and the deaf. I have been a part of helping KSSB grow and change to meet needs of students all across the state while keeping our campus program strong and dynamic. We have all worked together as we have refocused our attention statewide by modifying our programs and services to meet the complex and changing needs of school districts statewide and of our campus students.

 

The vacancy in the superintendent’s position has been widely published – you can see the application brochure posted on Facebook and on our website. Notice has been given to the Council of Schools and Services for the Blind website, the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired website, all schools for the Deaf, all schools for the Blind, the dual schools for both the Deaf and the Blind, and other sites as well. The search is being handled by the Department of Education; the deadline has been extended to Monday, April 3rd. The following dates have been reserved to conduct interviews and give you, as stakeholders, the opportunity to come and meet the candidates and provide feedback on each of them. Depending on the number of candidates selected to interview, all three of these may not be used. We will keep you updated on any changes to the meeting schedule on the KSSB website and Facebook page. The stakeholders meetings are scheduled to take place in the Vogel Library from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the following dates: 

 

            Friday, April 7 

            Monday, April 10

            Thursday, April 20

 

The interview team is as follows:

Two Kansas Board of Education members: John Bacon and Janet Waugh

Two persons from the Kansas School for the Deaf: Joelle Allen and Kelly Grove

Two persons from the Kansas School for the Blind: Jon Harding and Aundrayah Shermer

 

You will note that each school is represented by a parent whose child/children has/have benefitted by attendance or services at one of the schools.

 

Please share this information with your organization. If you have questions or concerns, please let me know ( <mailto:mburkindine at kssdb.org> mburkindine at kssdb.org) so I can work through the Department of Education and the Commissioner to get them addressed. I look forward to seeing you at the first stakeholder meeting on Friday, April 7. Thank you for your support.




 

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Madeleine Burkindine, Superintendent

Marva Thompson, Executive Secretary

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