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- Target:
- City School District of Albany, NY
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- www.facebook.com
Dr. Kimberly Wilkins was born and raised in Albany and is a life-long resident, who has served the City School District of Albany (CSDA) with distinction, for 28 years, as a teacher, assistant principal, principal. Since January 22, 2016, she has served as acting and then interim superintendent and also as superintendent/receiver at the CSDA schools in receivership.
During Dr. Wilkins short superintendent tenure, she quickly returned stability to a struggling school district by hiring, repositioning and rebuilding the district's and school leadership team.
Dr. Wilkins and her team have achieved the following results:
• Returned the focus towards student achievement
• Increased the student graduation rate
• Developed a multi-year academic improvement plan
• Improved the district's curriculum to align with common core implementation
• Recreated the district's code of conduct, necessitated by an assurance agreement with the NYS Attorney General
• Effectively steered our schools through the receivership process
• Reinstituted seamless school election procedures
• Improved the budget deliberation process
• Temporarily reconfigured the middle schools, necessitated by increased student population, and
• Established a refugee school to create focused learning opportunities.
She has overcome numerous obstacles and challenges in her tenure as interim superintendent and she never fails to get the job done. She always has a plan A, B, and C and successfully executes or redirects as needed.
Her “hands on” and collegial management style have had a positive impact on the performance of district administrators, teachers and staff. She is accessible to and well respected by district parents. She is also very active in the Albany community, including long-standing service and leadership of several community-based organizations.
The consistent promotion of academic professionals from far away and outside the school district discourages employee morale, frustrates career progression and succession planning, and increases the challenge of employee recruitment and retention.
Dr. Wilkins is committed to our students and to our city and she brings heart and soul to our school district.
Given Dr. Wilkins’ outstanding performance as both acting and interim superintendent, she is the best choice for our students and for Albany’s future!
We urge the School Board to reconsider and appoint Dr. Wilkins as Albany’s superintendent of schools.
We the undersigned stand in solidarity and request that the City School District of Albany Board of Education appoint Dr. Kimberly Wilkins as the superintendent of schools for Albany, NY.
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The We want Dr. Kimberly Wilkins as the Albany Superintendent of Schools petition to City School District of Albany, NY was written by Kenneth Bruce and is in the category Education at GoPetition.