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CABE presents leadership profile to Cromwell board, community prioritizes trust and communication
Summary
Cromwell Board of Education reviewed a CABE leadership profile to guide its superintendent search; the community prioritized building trusting relationships, clear communication and accessible, student-focused leadership, while CABE flagged budget, staffing and special-education pressures.
The Cromwell Board of Education on Wednesday received a leadership profile from CABE, the consultants leading the district's superintendent search, laying out survey and focus-group findings the board will use to screen candidates.
Mary, a CABE consultant, told the board the firm conducted nine focus groups and in-person interviews with 61 people and received 149 survey responses, for a corrected total participation of 210 after accounting for respondents who identified in multiple categories. "We conducted nine focus groups and spoke with 61 people in person," Mary said, adding the profile corrects a typographical error that previously listed total participants as 211.
The consultants summarized community-identified strengths as a dedicated and caring staff, strong staff collaboration and retention, personalized learning tied to small class sizes, and extensive extracurricular and curricular…
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