Series III Reading. Strike a blow for transparency for once. I think Wu understands that the next super needs the trust of students, their parents and Boston teachers to really hit the ground running. She fell afoul of the powers that be when she made it clear that she thought they had to close schools to make running the system more efficient. Once we got settled in a classroom at the school, Cassellius told me about her life. When I asked Mayor Walsh about this effort, he said it would be false to characterize the role explored over the summer as a checkmate to Brenda. However, he said that as of December, Cassellius was seeking to hire a new operations director. The mayor and Cassellius say they arrived at the decision to have Brophy help BPS together. She does not seek out people, Bazile says, who are going to push her, interrogate her process, and ask provocative questions., Even more unnerving was the growing sense among BPS staffers that Cassellius herself realized she was in over her head. Cuando se ampla, se proporciona una lista de opciones de bsqueda para que los resultados coincidan con la seleccin actual. Working with educators, parents, business people, students, policy-makers and other concerned people throughout the United States. Cassellius added that theres nothing wrong with showing vulnerability by crying. Everythings smooth and working great. Then, almost speaking to herself, she adds, Because in my life, its not like that every day.. That's not out-front administration. Woolhouse: Well, it actually made me think she already has someone in mind. This transcript has been edited for clarity and length. Before working with . Rachel Pearson is a parent advocate and trainer at the PACER Center, a nonprofit that champions youth with disabilities and their families. Many times over a career great humans cross your path that bring an almost indescribable energy, however every time the person is in the room you feel their After two-and-a-half turbulent years as superintendent of Boston Public Schools, Brenda Cassellius will resign in June, city officials announced Monday. Santoro: Peter, as we said at the top, the pandemic has not made the position of superintendent easy by any stretch. Cassellius had been on the job less than a year when schools closed, but I don't think Cassellius' response helped build trust among parents in the district. Oh, I want to come in on Thursday. She seems simultaneously energized and at ease at the school. Cambridge's public school superintendent left last summer, and Boston is now in a similar position. . To say that Casselliuss daily life in Boston has not been smooth is something of an understatement. It caught me off guard, Cassellius admitted during the interview in a BPS classroom. The Emerald Necklacea narrow, marshy landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmstedcould not possibly be the site of a half-dozen or more high schools. Last month, she filled in at Nathan Hale School as a substitute fourth grade teacher for a day. But they found her methods strange. She started in the position in July 2019. September 8, 2018 Will new reporting & school support systems help students? And that's really taken up all the air in the room, so to speak. Brenda Cassellius will resign at the end of the school year, roughly three years after she was hired away from Minnesota. As the students offered suggestionsfree menstrual products, cleaner bathrooms, improved ventilationCassellius had her executives take notes. This button displays the currently selected search type. "My hands - and my heart - will be fully committed to BPS until it is time to pass the baton. School officials under Walsh tightly controlled the search process when Cassellius was hired and now the school committee says it wont divulge details of the separation agreement until next month. Superintendent Dr. Brenda Cassellius will leave her post at the end of the school year. And thats a good thingright? A group of Boston parents has filed a lawsuit against the school committee and Superintendent Brenda Cassellius for what they call a "wholly-irrational" exam school admissions process, which. "She didn't make a difference, period," the mother said. Even though the July intervention did not come to fruition, Walsh still took measures to bolster the central office. Stream GBH's Award-Winning Content For Parents And Children. He had a flawed first search for a superintendent. Dismayed by the prospect of sending kids to school there, she asked her staff to find a way to close italong with another dilapidated school, the Jackson/Mannand send the students elsewhere. Cassellius insists she will still be that leader, as long as the city will let her. Cassellius has come to Lee this morning to check on the work being done inside the cafeteriaa space as wide and tall as a gymnasiumwhere a dozen or so chefs are busily prepping packaged meals and bags of groceries. Brenda Cassellius, the head of BPS, has a vision for the future unlike any superintendent the city has ever encountered. She did not say why she is leaving. Concerned parents want to know how dangerous it is inside the walls of Boston schools. [], Joe Nathan / The plan was opposed by some parent groups that wanted 20 percent of the spots at the schools set aside for the best applicants regardless of socioeconomic status. 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On an unseasonably warm day in October 2019, Brenda Cassellius took the floor during a meeting at the Bolling Building, BPSs headquarters in Nubian Square. For the next hour, she listened warmly and keenly to the advice of her most important constituentsstudents. It does not seem that there is any appetite to give people room to prove themselves., If Cassellius shares that sentiment, she was too diplomatic, in most of our conversations, to say so. It began when the new superintendent came to town. The promotions left colleagues, and sometimes the promoted employees themselves, baffled. Working with educators, parents, business people, students, policy-makers and other concerned people throughout the United States. Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius will step down from her position as the district's chief executive in June a decision that Mayor Michelle Wu described on Monday as. Cassellius, the former Minnesota Commissioner of Education, was selected superintendent in 2019 by the Boston School Committee. In July 2020, they wrote Cassellius a letterwhich was leaked to the Boston Globeexcoriating her redesign proposal as a top-down exercise in poor planning that is divorced from any authentic analysis of data, lacks major details that must be thought through prior to implementation, [and] ignores years of studies about BPS high schools and the complex issues they face.. But she knows where she is. This button displays the currently selected search type. Lack of uniform start and dismal dismissal times is the root of the problem, report says. I feel like I am put in places where I need to be for that reason. 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On January 8, 2020, in his State of the City speech, Walsh called out Cassellius by name, saying she was working hard to give every single student access to high-quality schools., Cassellius says she felt she was flying high, on her way to achieving her vision for a better, fairer BPS. Back in Minneapolis, she served as an associate superintendent from 2007 to 2010, overseeing high school principals. Boston Public School Superintendent Brenda Cassellius will walk away with more than $300,000 as part of a separation agreement that she reached last week with the Boston School Committee. The staffers, all veterans of public school administration in Boston and beyond, listened closely. Will they be encouraged and challenged? Peter Kadzis: No there have been problems that go way back, even as far back as Ray Flynn and Mayor Menino. Brenda Cassellius's husband is Jason Cassellius. It's a sense among parents of "here we go again" and that might even understate the level of aggravation they're feeling. The swiftness of criticism, she told me, and the willingness to condemn, its something uniquely Boston. Boston schools superintendent Brenda Cassellius appeared to catch many by surprise Monday when she announced she would step down from her position at the end of the school year. They began considering an intervention. Henry Santoro: Meg, let's start with you. They were tracking COVID, and it was the parents that forced the closure of the school. Transitions are difficult for kids and adults alike. After completing the proposal, she walked into the mayors office with her pitch: Add an additional $100 million to BPSs budget. With help from the Minnesota Department of Education and Target, we have completed new videos that are in 7 languages: Hmong, Somali, Arabic, Karen, Dakota, English and Spanish. The plan, which was pursued without Casselliuss knowledge, was never consummated. Cassellius will likely be muzzled under a non-disclosure agreement when she leaves, but it would be nice if she spilled details of her brief time as superintendent on the way out. Once, a BPS official saw Briner and Cassellius huddled in a hallway in the Bolling Building. Over the next 15 years, her career remained on a steady ascent. All of this landed in her lap precisely when the district was trying to figure out how to reopen schools in the fall. Superintendent Brenda Cassellius: "Working alongside so many people - parents, educators, community and faith leaders, and philanthropic partners - all dedicated to helping our children achieve their dreams has given new meaning to my vision of all hands on deck. When you are disrupting the status quo with an anti-racist lens, as an African-American woman, you have to think about the motives of why people might be criticizing the ideas and the disruption that Im making so that underserved children can be served better and to create opportunity and access. Most recently as Boston Public School Superintendent. Henry Santoro hosts midday newscasts on GBH Radio and contributes to breaking news coverage and other hosting duties for GBHs daytime programming. Sweet potato fries! Cassellius says, pointing at the calendar. At the same time, not everyone agrees with this renderinga soaring start to her superintendency derailed by a once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe. We will remember him forever. For that kind of money, Boston parents and voters deserve a full accounting of what led to the mutual decision for Cassellius to depart. The school committee approved her plan and Walsh agreed to the budget increase. / CBS Boston. However, she was Carol Johnson's chief of staff, a former superintendent. Her resignation. "I will be working in close partnership with the School Committee to move forward the search process for a permanent Superintendent. The couple has been happily married for years and is parents to three children. Despite Casselliuss public victories, though, BPS officials were alarmed by the mounting evidence that she was an ineffective administrator. "I don't have any further thoughts on that at this time," she said. It was the early 70s and people werent too nice to biracial children., Cassellius started her career as a special-education paraprofessional and soon rocketed up the ranks. Theyve held more than 100 meetings around the state since January 2016 on one of the most important issues facing Minnesota: [], Joe Nathan / Before she even started the job, when she was still a candidate for the position, she had already seemed to achieve the impossible: winning the support of the community, the school committee, the teachers union, and the mayor. The Boston Public School Committee is expected to sign a separation agreement Wednesday to give Cassellius at least $311,000, the Boston Herald reported. When you are really smart and your mind is moving a lot, sometimes you have to take the time to pause and hear from others., Carol Johnson saw both promise and room for growth in Cassellius. Big changes and bold visions were called for. Reading Sage MCAS Practice Test. It was so fun to see Tou again in new employee orientation A superintendents contract can be broken with four months notice and the school committee extended Casseliuss contract last year, according to the Herald. Yet even by the standards of a city that has had five superintendents in the past decade, Casselliuss first year and a half on the job since arriving from Minnesota, where she served as the commissioner of the Department of Education, has been tumultuous. The windows open there. Before her aide could object, she was off. How much influence and interference did they really have on her and how the schools are run? She had been sitting in her car for the past 45 minutes, she explains, on a conference call with other big-city superintendents brainstorming ways to reopen schools in the middle of a pandemic. The district is primarily Black and Latino, and parents have been promised much over the years and bore the brunt of the pandemic illnesses and job losses. Her husband Jason is a stay-at-home dad. Brenda CasselliusCommissionerMinnesota Department of Education1500 Highway 36 WestRoseville, Minnesota . Lets go to TechBoston, she suggested. Together, we've laid a stronger foundation upon which BPS can continue to build. BOSTON The Superintendent of Boston Public Schools, Dr. Brenda Cassellius, has announced plans to resign after three years as leader of the state's largest school system and will address the decision in front of reporters at a news conference scheduled for 10:15 Tuesday morning. Casselliuss staffers were stunned that she believed it was possible to shut down two school buildings in a matter of weeks, when that process normally took years. Massachusetts could get another snowstorm Friday: What areas were the jackpot zones in this past storm? In the summer, McChrystal Group, a consultancy that has worked with the mayor at City Hall, began running Casselliuss weekly coronavirus update calls with principals. 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