Executive Director – Tri-State Consortium

Our Mission:

The Tri-State Consortium is an alliance of public school districts committed to systems thinking and collaborative inquiry as pathways toward continuous improvement. Working together as colleagues and critical friends, we apply the standards of the Tri-State model to benchmark member districts’ progress in advancing teaching and learning. Consortium members support each other through external peer review of programs and practices, study groups, conferences and topic-based seminars designed to deepen professional learning.

The Consortium Today:

In 2023, membership in the Consortium is 52 school districts in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, plus 7 ex officio member districts. To date, the Consortium has conducted more than 250 district visits. It currently conducts, on average, fifteen district visits each year. Just as the model encourages member districts to become “learning organizations,” the Consortium itself is committed to operating as a learning organization. Over the years,the Consortium has commissioned two large evaluation studies of the impact of the organization on its member districts. Both studies revealed high levels of satisfaction and identified areas in which the Consortium could broaden and/or improve its services to member districts.The vast majority of these suggestions have been implemented.

The duties and responsibilities as Executive Director include but are not limited to the following:

• Overseeing the ongoing work of the Consortium;
• Work collaboratively with the Steering Committee to carry out the mission of the Consortium;
• Scheduling and preparing materials for all Consortium meetings;
• Scheduling district visits, monitoring the work of the teams, editing visit reports, and, when requested, assisting member superintendents in presenting visit reports to their boards;
• Supervising and evaluating the work of the Assistant Director, the Director of Training, and Business Official;
• Managing the finances of the Consortium under the oversight of the Steering Committee, producing quarterly financial statements, preparing an annual budget and arranging for an annual external review of the Consortium’s financial records;
• Organizing and overseeing the Consortium’s study groups;
• Organizing the Consortium’s annual fall and spring conferences;
• Providing leadership to the Consortium that ensures a consistent, high level of service to all functions of the Consortium including long-range planning; and
• Providing summaries of the activities and work of the Consortium.

The Executive Director reports directly to the Co-Chairs of the Steering Committee.

• Overseeing the ongoing work of the Consortium;
• Work collaboratively with the Steering Committee to carry out the mission of the Consortium;
• Scheduling and preparing materials for all Consortium meetings;
• Scheduling district visits, monitoring the work of the teams, editing visit reports, and, when requested, assisting member superintendents in presenting visit reports to their boards;
• Supervising and evaluating the work of the Assistant Director, the Director of Training, and Business Official;
• Managing the finances of the Consortium under the oversight of the Steering Committee, producing quarterly financial statements, preparing an annual budget and arranging for an annual external review of the Consortium’s financial records;
• Organizing and overseeing the Consortium’s study groups;
• Organizing the Consortium’s annual fall and spring conferences;
• Providing leadership to the Consortium that ensures a consistent, high level of service to all functions of the Consortium including long-range planning; and
• Providing summaries of the activities and work of the Consortium.