Pritchett Named As Head of HR
Looks like current head of HR, Noel Treat, is leaving....again.
What a game of musical chairs for Pritchett who has been all over SPS including sharing duties with Carrie Campbell as the "assistant deputy superintendent the Office of Strategy Deployment and Responsiveness." I'm still not sure what the work was for either Campbell or Pritchett in that role.
But again, here's SPS putting an administrator who has zero experience in HR to head HR instead of a real HR professional.
From SPS Public Affairs:
Dear SPS Staff,I am pleased to announce that Dr. Sarah Pritchett has agreed to serve as the interim assistant superintendent of Human Resources beginning June 14. She will be taking over for Noel Treat, who is leaving Seattle Public Schools this week to take a position in private law practice.
Dr. Pritchett has significant experience with our district, and I’m confident she will make rich and informed contributions in this new position. As assistant deputy superintendent of the Office of Strategy Deployment and Responsiveness (SDR) for the last year, she has focused on alignment, coordination, and deployment of resources in support of schools, student outcomes and our strategic plan.
Given Dr. Pritchett’s outstanding leadership for strategic work across operational, teaching, and learning divisions, I am confident she will partner effectively with teachers, school leaders, central office staff and labor partners to support our mission of providing the highest quality service and support our students and families. I know she will continue leading the division’s outstanding team as they work to keep our systems aligned to the needs of employees.
Dr. Pritchett is a proud graduate of Seattle Public School’s Franklin High School and has served the students and families of SPS since 1993, leaving briefly for an assistant principalship in Lake Washington School District. Prior to serving as the assistant deputy superintendent of the Office of Strategy Deployment and Responsiveness, Dr. Pritchett was the director of secondary schools and the central region director of schools for eight years. She also served as the principal of McClure Middle School, assistant principal of Rose Hill Junior High, house administrator at Mercer Middle School and as a classroom teacher and instructional assistant at Sharples Alternative School.
Sarah earned a B.A. in psychology at Washington State University, an M.A. in educational administration and administrative certification at Western Washington University, and an Ed.D in educational leadership and superintendent certification at the University of Washington.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Pritchett and welcoming her to her new role.
In partnership,
Dr. Brent Jones
Superintendent
Seattle Public Schools
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We have a dysfunctional school board that is focused on killing advanced learning, limiting PTA dolars and placing up to SEVEN students on the school board which will take administrative time.
https://southseattleemerald.com/2022/06/14/catherine-brown-demotion-completes-admin-overhaul-at-cleveland-and-franklin-high-schools/
Noel Treat is familiar with the district. He is leaving and HR will once again be in shambles.
It sure looks like we have an incompetent superintendent and dysfunctional board.
The district is in crisis and the board says NOTHING.
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That means that this was their bad news. Certainly shows that SPS Exec Leadership is a bureaucrat jobs program. Which resonates with Melissa's announcement: Per what seems like an SPS' new policy of "only good news!," there is no statement about the incident at SPS' Twitterfeed nor at their website.
https://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2022/06/roosevelt-high-school-shuts-down-early.html
Pritchett or just any random staff, including the current Chief of Staff or the other assistant deputy superintendent or even the deputy superintendent Gannon could be a good fit. But definitely not Superintendent Jones. His HR mismanagement resulted in more than one egregious child molestation incidents (see the link below the next paragraph).
Now, anyone can do that job, as long as SPS keeps paying for the lawsuits with the liability insurance or whatever funded by taxpayers, exactly like the last one, thanks to the HR mismanagement by Jones:
https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/seattle-schools-settles-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-for-3-million/
Anyway, who named Pritchett for that job? If it was Jones, that will ensure a new episode of the long-running shit shows. What criteria did he use to match her training to the job for an assistant superintendent of HR at SPS, ever? That's one more reason that giving Jones the job as SPS superintendent was the Board's disservice to the society.
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The board protected Jones. He was never vetted by the public and never provided his vision to the public. There was a "listening tour" after the board hired Jones for the position of permanent superintendent. Jones should of had to explain, to the public, how a child molester was moved through the system.
What Melissa shared above is an internal FYI from Jones, which works as SPS internal announcement nevertheless.
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