Jim Hardy
MASC Experience Field Director, February 1996 – Present Consultant on superintendent searches for Massachusetts school districts Workshop presenter: Workshop for
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MASC Experience Field Director, February 1996 – Present Consultant on superintendent searches for Massachusetts school districts Workshop presenter: Workshop for
Having previously served as the Association’s President in 2016, Mr. Oliveira first joined the MASC Board of Directors in 2011 as Chair of Division V (Connecticut Valley), and previously served as the Division’s Secretary-Treasurer and Vice President. He is Chair of MASC’s Resolutions Committee, as well as the Board of Directors Policy Subcommittee. He has participated at numerous state and national education workshops and conferences and organized the first of several MASC division meetings that focused on the new educator and administrator evaluation regulations.
Day on the Hill is MASC’s annual legislative advocacy day. Typically, this event brings hundreds of school committee members, superintendents and student leaders to the State House in Boston to meet with the executive and legislative leadership as well as local senators and representatives. This event is an increasingly critical moment for MASC members to advance the message of the value of public education and ensure that legislators and other key decision/policy makers understand the issues and challenges that you confront and that they can support.
MASC has established a scholarship funded by and honoring the Association’s Past Presidents, to recognize an outstanding student who demonstrates outstanding scholarship; service to the school district, community or public at large; or distinguished achievement.
MASC Field Directors are available to provide facilitation or training for your School Committee retreat or workshop in the following
The MASC team that will assist you includes present and former school committee members who truly understand a school committee’s concerns when seeking a new school Superintendent or other school leader. With over 30 years’ successful search consulting experience, the Massachusetts Association of School Committees has provided technical assistance and/or complete search management to more than 200 member school districts across the state. We uphold our commitment to you, our members, by maintaining the highest standards of professionalism, integrity and accountability. As your Association, MASC is committed to helping you find the best leader for your particular district.
A Guide for Present and Future School Committee Chairs We are very pleased to provide this important publication on the
Good policy is basic to good management. Education Reform has clearly defined policy making as a critically important responsibility for
MASC offers two e-mail discussion lists (also known as “listservs“). Each time you or any member of the list posts a message or a reply to the conversation, it is distributed to the email box of every member on the list. Messages are not screened before they are posted, though they are monitored by the administrator.
