Rickey Named Iowa Superintendent of the Year – Mix 94.7 KMCH

Kristen Rickey, superintendent of the West Delaware County Group Faculty District, has been named the 2022-23 Iowa Superintendent of the 12 months by the Faculty Directors of Iowa.

In response to receiving the award, Rickey commented, “There are such a lot of educators working arduous to serve our communities and our households. It’s an honor to be acknowledged for the work we’re doing, and I’m so happy to have the ability to contribute to this vital work.”

Kristen Rickey has served because the district superintendent and director of particular training since 2011 and was beforehand principal at McKinley Center Faculty in Cedar Rapids. Her profession started as a particular training trainer at Marion Excessive Faculty in Marion. She is a College of Iowa graduate with a bachelor’s diploma in psychology, a grasp’s in particular training, and a doctorate in academic coverage and management research.

SAI Govt Director Lisa Remy mentioned, “Kristen is a real chief and a very good selection by her friends because the 2023 Iowa Superintendent of the 12 months. She serves the entire baby, together with social-emotional wants, profession readiness, range, fairness, and inclusion points and a lot extra. She does so via collaboration and by listening to all voices in decision-making from college students, mother and father, academics, and group members. Dr. Rickey is a pacesetter who takes accountability for locating the potential in individuals and has the braveness to develop that potential.”

She was nominated by her friends and chosen for the award by a committee of Iowa superintendents. Iowa’s Administrator of the 12 months award recipients shall be honored at SAI’s Annual Convention subsequent summer time. She will even signify the state within the Nationwide Superintendent of the 12 months Program^® sponsored by AASA, The Faculty Superintendents Affiliation.