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Dr. Joan Connolly works for Bay State Reading Initiative as a Principal Coach in both urban and suburban districts. She also serves as Program Administrator of the New Superintendents Induction Program, a partnership between the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents and the MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. She administers this program now in its seventh year and coaches new superintendents in districts across the state. She has held many positions in public education including teacher, guidance counselor, assistant principal, principal, assistant superintendent and superintendent. She was the Superintendent of the Malden Public Schools from 2000-2007 and Superintendent of the Winthrop Public Schools from 1996-2000. From 2007-2009 she was the Academic Director of Professional Programs in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was the Co-Facilitator of the Massachusetts Urban Superintendents’ Network for six years and served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents for seven years. She was President of MASS from 2005-2006. She was an adjunct member of the faculty at Salem State College for eighteen years, teaching in both the School Administration Program and the CAGS Program. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Collaborative Education and The Paul Revere Innovation School. |