POTTSTOWN PA – Dr. Kristen Kozloski, director of technology for the Pottsgrove School District since November 2007, has tendered her resignation effective mid-July (2010), district Superintendent Dr. Bradley Landis announced Tuesday (May 25). She has been hired for a similar position in the North Penn School District in Hatfield PA, Landis said.

During her tenure at Pottsgrove, Kozloski won praise from Landis and school board members for solving  technology-related problems that plagued the district, and also helping give it a vision of better adapting technology to educational programs. She greatly expanded laptop computer usage among students, upgraded the district’s wireless network, rolled out a new website, and introduced class videoconferencing with students in other schools.

Kozloski also expanded her professional resume while at Pottsgrove. In off-hours since September (2009) she served as an adjunct professor for the University of Massachusetts at Boston, teaching certificate-level courses in its instructional technology for educators program. Since January 2005 she also has served as adjunct professor for Drexel University, teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses in instructional design for its School of Education.

Although Kozloski will remain on the job for another 45 days – while on Twitter Wednesday (May 26) she was busily promoting Pottsgrove’s participation in the Student Technology Showcase at the East Rotunda of the Capital in Harrisburg – members of the district Board of School Directors expressed concerned about her departure. “What if anything gets lost when Dr. Kozloski leaves?,” President Michael Neiffer wondered aloud during the board’s meeting Tuesday night in the administration building on Kauffman Road.

“In the interim,” Landis replied, “I think we’ll be able to manage” by relying on other members of the team Kozloski assembled.

However, when pressed by Director April Kontostathis as to whether Kozloski could be replaced by someone at a lesser salary level, Landis suggested it was in the district’s best interest to find an equally strong candidate. If Pottsgrove hires a successor with a sufficient technology background but who lacks the understanding of how it works with education, he said, “we’ll lose the vision that’s gotten us this far.”

Finding the right candidate may be easier said than done, Landis acknowledged. The regional pool of talent he considers qualified to succeed Kozloski, he said, is “shallow.”

Related (to the Pottsgrove Board of School Directors’ May 25 meeting):

• Kozloski Leaving Pottsgrove IT For North Penn
• Board Cuts Budget More, But Keeps After-School Busing
• Pottsgrove Authorizes Pius Lease For Ringing Relocation

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