Kimberly Moritz BlogPosts

Tomorrow is December 1 and I’ll be three weeks from starting at Randolph. I can’t sleep with everything that’s running through my head. It’s starting to shift from everything I’m summarizing/passing on/leaving at Gowanda to everything that needs to be done at Randolph. There’s so much to wrap my head around quickly.

I’m thinking about the building project that they’re smack dab in the middle of and getting a thorough handle on it, from financials to plans to projected end dates. The budget season is starting, well, yesterday. I want to be in every classroom, just to have a clearer picture of who our teachers and students are and of our instructional program. I’m thinking about all of the visibility opportunities, just to get to know members of our community and to hear what’s on their minds. I’m thinking about the contract negotiations, the financial picture given the state of the state, the facilities/bus garage/cafeteria program.

And then I’m thinking about getting my BOE agendas right, forming relationships with the secretary to the superintendent and business office personnel, the managers, the union representatives, the administrative team and the teachers/support staff. Well, with everyone. I have so much to learn. I need time with the BOE members to hear what’s most important to them and to our community. And then I’m thinking about everything that I might be missing that I should be thinking about.  I’m thinking about everything that everyone is sitting there waiting to tell me, to ask me, to hope for, to act on.

I just really need to get there and to get to work. I am so aware of the incredible opportunity that I have to make a real and positive difference in this school district. The opportunity to listen and to learn and to make decisions that impact our students in wonderful ways. The opportunity to lead and to problem solve, to make things better. The opportunity to make new connections, to rekindle old ones, and to form relationships that lead to a better education and the very best school system we can be, together.