Third in a series.
Re: “LaRose Soliciting Opinions at High School”
Without a permanent principal since the second month of the school term, Culver City High School will unveil its new administrator in less than a month – 29 days, to be precise.
How do we know?
It says so on page 1 of Supt. Dave LaRose’s scrupulously organized search plan.
Mr. LaRose’s faultless style is to detail each particle of each task down, almost, to the color of sox to be worn each day.
That is the answer to the question of why the School District has run noiselessly, trouble-free, like a meticulously cared-for luxury automobile the past three years.
When Dr. Dylan Farris abruptly resigned last October to move into the El Segundo Unified School District, assistant principal Dr. Lisa Cooper transitioned without a hiccup – unlike the experiences of many schools faced with a jolting adjustment.
Smooth-and-effective captures Mr. LaRose’s style. The hunt for a long-term replacement was the antithesis of a slapdash project. From a date in February, Mr. LaRose designed a day-by-day work plan that will culminate on Tuesday, April 28, at a School Board meeting.
A career-long educator, sometimes Mr. LaRose’s speech matters resemble those of a person in business. In choosing the next principal, “from an organizational perspective,” he and Board president Nancy Goldberg will be certain that he or she holds “beliefs and values” that Culver City considers “absolutely, positively essential.” The chosen person’s thinking “would have to be aligned with the fundamental beliefs of this organization.
“We are very, very clear about those beliefs,” said Mr. LaRose. “First and foremost, our purpose: To insure high levels of learning for all students. There should be no doubt about that. But the two beliefs associated with that are No. 1, that every child has the capacity to learn at high levels. We believe that is possible.
“A close second is that we believe they will or they won’t, depending on what we do as adults. We assume full responsibility for high levels of learning for all students.”
(To be continued)