Today I had a few minutes to chat with Dr. Thomas Payzant, a retired Boston Public Schools superintendent now working as a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was in town assisting with the search for Tupelo Public Schools Superintendent Randy McCoy’s replacement. Here’s some of what he had to say, but you can read more in tomorrow’s DJ:
Suggested hed: Harvard professor assists with Tupelo superintendent search
By Ginny Miller
Daily Journal
TUPELO – Nationally recognized Harvard education professor Thomas Payzant was in Tupelo this week, helping the city school district find a new superintendent.
“I was asked by the firm that’s doing the superintendent search … to spend the day here in Tupelo to provide context for the search and the challenges that are there in regard to the issues that superintendents need to address in school districts today,” said Payzant, a former superintendent of the Boston Public Schools and now a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates, an Illinois-based consulting firm, was hired by the Tupelo Public School District Board of Trustees to find a replacement for Randy McCoy, who will retire on June 30, 2009.
While in Tupelo, Payzant spoke at a community education forum on Monday and met with TPSD administrators on Tuesday.
