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Board releases résumés of finalists for Warren school district chief
Warren Resumes
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Resumes for the six finalists for superintendent of the Warren City Schools
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
School-board members had the second of two interview sessions Friday with the six finalists for superintendent.
The board will meet in private Monday to choose which three to interview again.
At 11:30 a.m. Friday, the board will interview three finalists a second time. Six members of the community, selected by the group they represent, will participate in those interviews, school officials say.
On Friday, the board released the résumés of the six finalists.
Sharon McDonald, deputy chief of special projects with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District since 2007, supervises departments that handle student assignments, hearings and appeals, attendance, health services, social workers, a homeless program and family and community engagement.
She also worked in the Dayton public-school system during the 2005-06 school year and worked in the Columbus school system from 1999 to 2005. She started her career in education in 1982 as a teacher in the Ashtabula County Joint Vocational School.
Kelly D. Brooks- Washington has been American Recovery and Reinvestment Act program coordinator at the Akron Public Schools since 2009. The school district has spent the money to create and retain jobs such as math/literacy coaches, book-challenge coaches, bully specialists, homeless coordinator, and technology coaches.
She also has served as adjunct faculty member at Ashland University and Ursuline College in Pepper Pike since 2003. She worked at the Maple Heights City Schools and was principal and special-education teacher at three schools in the Cleveland area dating back to 1992.
Bruce W. Thomas has been superintendent of Marietta City Schools since July 2009 and was a regional superintendent of Cleveland Metropolitan Schools for one year. He was school- improvement coordinator with the Ohio Department of Education for one year and held positions with the South Euclid-Lyndhurst and Maple Heights school districts dating back to 1986.
His first job, in 1983, was counselor with the Southern Arizona Behavioral Health Clinic.
Thomas D. Gay has been president of The Quality Schools Group, an educational consulting company, since 2005.
He was a superintendent in Lapeer, Mich., from 2003 to 2005; in Waldron, Mich., from 2001 to 2003; and in Redford, Mich., from 1998 to 2001. He also had school-related jobs in the following Ohio towns: Kirkersville, Springfield, King’s Mills, Hilliard, North Baltimore, Hardin, and Wapakoneta.
Clifford T. Wallace lists his most-recent job as adjunct instructor at Bryant & Stratton College in Cleveland in the fall of 2007. He was director of business affairs in the Warrensville Heights City Schools from 2004 through 2007 and elementary principal and middle-school principal there from 2000 to 2004.
He was high-school principal and middle-school unit principal in the Cleveland Municipal Schools from 1997 to 2000. He taught in the Warrensville Heights school district from 1992 through 1996.
Deborah Hunter-Harville has run Hunter-Harville Educational Associates Inc., a consulting company, since last June. She was superintendent of Westwood Heights Schools in Flint, Mich., from 2008 to 2010. She was president- elect and president of the National Alliance of School Educators from 2005 to 2009 and was a principal/instructional leader in the Detroit Public Schools from 2000 to 2008.
She worked in the Detroit school system, Hazel Park school system and Oak Park school district, all in Michigan, dating back to 1994 and taught in Michigan dating back to 1984.