Community Invited to Welcome Reception for New Superintendent of Schools

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WINDSOR  COMMUNITY INVITED TO FEBRUARY 1 WELCOME RECEPTION FOR NEW SUPERINTENDENT OF  SCHOOLS JEFFREY A. VILLAR

WINDSOR,  CONN., January 19, 2012 – The Windsor Board of Education invites all Windsor  residents to come and meet the town’s new Superintendent of Schools Jeffrey A.  Villar, Ph.D. A community-wide Welcome Reception for Dr. Villar will be held on  Wednesday, February 1 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Windsor High School’s Library  Media Center at 50 Sage Park Road. Refreshments will be prepared by students in Windsor High School’s Culinary  Arts program. There is no charge to attend this informal reception and  reservations are not required.  

Dr.  Villar officially will become the Windsor Public Schools Superintendent that  same day, February 1. He was elected to this position by the Windsor Board of Education on  November 30, 2011.  Since then, he has been  working with Interim Superintendent Dr. Ernest L. Perlini and the Board of  Education to meet the school system’s staff, the Windsor community, and to focus  on the future. Dr. Perlini has served as Interim Superintendent of the Windsor  Public Schools since this past spring, when Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth E.  Feser left the district after nine years to become Superintendent of the Milford  Public Schools (Conn.).

Dr. Villar has been a public school administrator in both urban and  suburban school systems for more than a dozen years. He currently is the  Superintendent of the Rocky Hill Public Schools, having been appointed to that  post in 2008. Prior to that position, he served as Associate Superintendent for  the Meriden (Conn.) Public Schools for four years. His school administrator  experience includes the jobs of Principal at Washington Middle School in  Meriden, as Assistant Principal at both Francis T. Maloney High School in  Meriden and at Washington Middle School, and as a Vice Principal and Curriculum  Specialist for the Hartford Public Schools’ Sports Sciences Academy. Before  becoming a school administrator, Dr. Villar was a Social Studies teacher in the  Hartford Public Schools at Bulkeley High School and at Quirk Middle  School.

A member of the Hartford Area Superintendents Association’s (HASA)  Executive Board, the Connecticut Association of Public Schools Superintendents’ (CAPSS) Legislative Committee, and the Connecticut Standards for School Leaders  Committee, he has presented at numerous conferences on administrative leadership  and education curriculum issues.

A  native of Marlborough, Conn., Dr. Villar received his Doctorate in Philosophy in  Curriculum and Instruction and his Masters degree in Education from the  University of Connecticut. He holds a Bachelors degree in History from Eastern  Connecticut State University.

Dr. Villar was the finalist in a search that included 21 candidates in a  process managed by the Windsor Board of Education with the New England School  Development Council (NESDEC), a non-profit organization whose general purpose is  the development of high performance schools throughout the  Northeast.

For  information about the Windsor Public Schools, call (860) 687-2000 or visit www.windsorct.org. For information about Windsor’s new Superintendent, please contact the  Superintendent’s office at (860) 687-2000 ext. 236.