{"id":1551,"date":"2014-10-23T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2014-10-23T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:15:40","slug":"assistant-superintendent-dusek-will-take-over-district-leadership-december-1-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2014\/10\/23\/assistant-superintendent-dusek-will-take-over-district-leadership-december-1-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Superintendent Dusek will take over district leadership December 1, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenai Peninsula Borough School District<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2014\/01\/KPBSD-logo-4c-no-tag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1016\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2014\/01\/KPBSD-logo-4c-no-tag-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Print\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nContact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #008080\">News Release<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Assistant Superintendent Dusek will take over district leadership December 1, 2014<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Soldotna, October 23, 2014\u2014At the October 20, 2014, Board of Education meeting, the school board, \u201cunanimously approved a Contract Amendment for the Interim Superintendent.\u201d Thus, current assistant superintendent Sean Dusek will become the superintendent of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District effective December 1, 2014.<\/strong><br \/>\nBoard president Joe Arness said, \u201cThe KPBSD school board is proud and happy Mr. Sean Dusek accepted the position of interim superintendent. We consider ourselves fortunate, indeed, to have someone with his credentials and abilities already on staff and ready to assume the leadership of our district.\u201d<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1498\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2014\/09\/Sean-Dusek-KPBSD-All-Staff-Inservice-presentation-August-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1498\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2014\/09\/Sean-Dusek-KPBSD-All-Staff-Inservice-presentation-August-2014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sean Dusek, Assistant Superintendent, presents to all staff at opening inservice. August 2014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean Dusek, Assistant Superintendent, presents to all staff at opening inservice. August 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIn an email to all employees on October 21, 2014, Mr. Dusek wrote, \u201cKPBSD is widely perceived as strong and innovative. I truly believe that. I have been a part of this district for more than 22 years and am deeply committed to our students, staff, community, mission and vision. My wife, Lynn, and I are proud parents of two children who have been in our school system from the start of their public education. Lynn is also a graduate and retired, long-time teacher from our system. We have witnessed first-hand the dedication and effort the KPBSD staff demonstrates on a daily basis to meet the needs of all students. \u2026 I believe our district has the will to catch greatness, and as your superintendent, I will work to make that vision a reality, serving every child, every day, for a better tomorrow.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI am pleased that the Board has chosen Mr. Dusek to be our district\u2019s interim superintendent,\u201d said Steve Atwater, superintendent. \u201cSean brings a wealth of knowledge about KPBSD and a good understanding of each of our initiatives to make his transition to superintendent a smooth one.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\nKPBSD website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/departments.aspx?id=268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assistant superintendent of instruction Dusek<br \/>\n<\/a>October 23, 2014:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/files\/2014\/10\/KPBSD_2014_10_23_New-KPBSD-Interim-superintendent-is-Sean-Dusek.pdf\">KPBSD:\u00a0New KPBSD Interim superintendent is Sean Dusek<\/a><br \/>\nSeptember 9, 2014: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/Workarea\/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=31786\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">School board offers interim superintendent position to Sean Dusek<br \/>\n<\/a>August 4, 2014: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/Workarea\/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=31322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Superintendent Atwater announces his resignation\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n###<br \/>\nThis and all KPBSD media releases are online at this web page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/communications.aspx?id=22096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MediaPublicRelationships <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/communications.aspx?id=22096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Suggest or contribute a story online<\/a> link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/Communications.aspx?id=28992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/SuggestKPBSDstory <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Contact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888 News Release Assistant Superintendent Dusek will take over district leadership December 1, 2014 Soldotna, October 23, 2014\u2014At the October 20, 2014, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2014\/10\/23\/assistant-superintendent-dusek-will-take-over-district-leadership-december-1-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assistant Superintendent Dusek will take over district leadership December 1, 2014&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[616,905],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kpbsd-employees","category-news-release","tag-kpbsd-superintendent","tag-sean-dusek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}