Community stakeholders say there are many important qualities that the next superintendent of Columbus City Schools will need to be successful.
Before starting her first full day as the head of Columbus City Schools in March 2019, Talisa Dixon said she woke up at 5:30 a.m. and"immediately went into prayer."
The new leader will have to be many things to many different community stakeholders: a caretaker and mentor of children; a budget-minded manager; an academic standard-bearer; an inspirational role model; and a politically adept coalition builder. Like it or not, progress is measured in student achievement on standardized tests. Some urban districts that have weathered the pandemic storm the best in terms of recent high achievers are in Washington, D.C., Miami, Dallas and Cleveland, Hart said.
The new leader must have the ability to move curriculum to focus on areas of need, like early literacy or technical education; to partner with local colleges on dual-enrollment programs; activate the business community's financial support for new initiatives; and emerge from the learning loss from the pandemic, Churchill said.
The district's teachers union, the Columbus Education Association , just months removed from its first strike since 1975, wants the next superintendent to be a common-sense collaborator who thoroughly understands operations and who can keep the buses rolling on time and the buildings heated, CEA President John Coneglio said.
Transparency and honesty are two traits that the NAACP Columbus chapter wants in the next superintendent, according to Nana Watson, the group's president. The next leader should be someone who understands the Columbus community, can engage with it, and can be proactive on issues of concern to students, she said.
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