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EDUCATION/CULTURE--VALLEY SCHOOL BOARD AMALGAMATION CO-ORDINATOR ------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Morrison, with more than 30 years' public education experience, has been hired as school board amalgamation co-ordinator for the new regional Valley Board. Dr. Morrison will work with the local amalgamation committee, including representatives from the existing Kings, Hants West and Annapolis districts, to plan a smooth transition to the new regional school board. Dr. Morrison holds a bachelor of commerce, bachelor of education, and master of education. He has also earned a doctorate from the Atlantic Institute of Education, and a certificate in community education leadership from the National Centre for Community Education in Michigan. His experience extends from the classroom to senior management, including the positions of superintendent of operations and chief executive officer for the province's largest school board, Halifax County-Bedford. Dr. Morrison is a certified strategic planning facilitator from the Cambridge Management Corporation. "Kings, Annapolis and Hants West are already showing real leadership as we move forward to amalgamation," Education and Culture Minister John MacEachern said. "Dr. Morrison has the experience and skills to build on this momentum, creating a new regional board focussed on meeting the needs of students throughout the Valley." Dr. Morrison was selected following a publicly-advertised competition. Once proposals were received, a departmental committee reviewed the proposals and conducted interviews based on established criteria, including leadership and communication skills, knowledge of educational issues (including school board and school council roles and responsibilities), and management, finance and consensus-building skills. Two co-ordinators have already been hired, now working in the Strait Region and on the province's first Le Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincial. Co-ordinators for Cape Breton-Victoria and for Southwest will be announced shortly, and advertisements for the final co-ordinators, for Metro and Chignecto-Central, will be placed this week. -30- Contact: Donna MacDonald 902-424-2615 trp Oct. 18, 1995