Seattle Schools Selects New Chief of Curriculum and Instruction
From SPS Communications:
Kyle Kinoshita, Ed.D has been selected Chief of Curriculum and Instruction for Seattle Public Schools (SPS). Kinoshita comes to the position after serving as the Executive Director of Learning and Teaching for the Marysville School District for the past nine years.
The SPS Chief of Curriculum and Instruction position is critical to students’ success. The position provides the district expertise and innovative leadership for all phases of department services, including professional development, standards, and assessments, as well as development of a curriculum and instructional delivery service model for schools to ensure direct and system-wide services to students.
Kyle was selected from a field of 21 applicants through a rigorous interview process that included principals, union partners and central office leaders.
One of the most important reasons Kyle applied for the position is that he is a product of Seattle School District’s central and southeast schools including Bailey Gatzert, Muir, Van Asselt and Rainier Beach elementary schools.
Kyle’s own experience has fueled a lifelong commitment to the achievement of equity and elimination of opportunity gaps. Working to help Seattle school leaders serve the historically underserved is a powerful personal motivator to join the district and accomplish the successful construction of a strong system of learning improvement.
Kyle hopes to develop a deep collaboration around student achievement, the elimination of achievement gaps, and a common language around powerful instruction and rigorous curriculum in all K-12 schools.
Kyle Kinoshita, Ed.D has been selected Chief of Curriculum and Instruction for Seattle Public Schools (SPS). Kinoshita comes to the position after serving as the Executive Director of Learning and Teaching for the Marysville School District for the past nine years.
The SPS Chief of Curriculum and Instruction position is critical to students’ success. The position provides the district expertise and innovative leadership for all phases of department services, including professional development, standards, and assessments, as well as development of a curriculum and instructional delivery service model for schools to ensure direct and system-wide services to students.
Kyle was selected from a field of 21 applicants through a rigorous interview process that included principals, union partners and central office leaders.
One of the most important reasons Kyle applied for the position is that he is a product of Seattle School District’s central and southeast schools including Bailey Gatzert, Muir, Van Asselt and Rainier Beach elementary schools.
Kyle’s own experience has fueled a lifelong commitment to the achievement of equity and elimination of opportunity gaps. Working to help Seattle school leaders serve the historically underserved is a powerful personal motivator to join the district and accomplish the successful construction of a strong system of learning improvement.
Kyle hopes to develop a deep collaboration around student achievement, the elimination of achievement gaps, and a common language around powerful instruction and rigorous curriculum in all K-12 schools.
Comments
-concerned
There's this from Western Washington U:
"In the Fall 2004, Kyle was presented the Excellence in Educational Administration award by the University Council for Educational Administration. Prior to this in 1993, he was awarded as a teacher the Christa McAuliffe-Excellence in Education Award from the state of Washington, in 2000 he received the Snohomish Region Distinguished Principal Award from the Association of Washington State Principals."
They have quite a well-thought out Highly Capable program. http://msd25.org/cms/lib8/WA01918994/Centricity/Domain/88/HiCap%20Program%20Summary%202014.pdf
But that's HC, just one aspect of Curriculum and Instruction. What surprised me about the Marysville website is how little info is made available to parents. What are the adopted programs/texts/materials? For elementary math, it looks to be EngageNY, but no info is available for MS and HS. What is the science curriculum? I suppose I was just looking for info on what was being offered in Marysville as a means of gaging what we can expect from the new head of C&I. I realize Marysville is smaller, and probably even more strained financially, but the lack of information is concerning.
-concerned
Unless, of course, your child's school decides otherwise and, in the case of any children with special needs, there is no development of a curriculum or instructional delivery model and no assurance of system-wide services to students.
Hit Ormiss
FWIW he went to Whitman and Harvard as well.
Charlie will be welcoming him aboard. Armchair quarterback knowledge is always helpful.
It tells alot about the quarterback.
FWIW
Hit Ormiss
FWIW
It's bad enough that I get in trouble for the stuff I have done. I'll accept responsibility for that. But now I'm taking heat for stuff that someone (someone who doesn't even know me) presumes I would do. I can't take responsibility for that.
As it happens, yes, I was going to write to Dr. Kinoshita to congratulate him on his new position, though without making any reference to his experiences switching schools as a child. I did not, however, assume that he has full knowledge of Seattle Public Schools. I don't think anyone does.
He wrote back to thank me for the congratulation (I was the first), to say that the press release wasn't a particularly precise description of his job, and to say that he is on a steep learning curve about Seattle Public Schools.
Here is his email address: kdkinoshita@seattleschools.org