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Updated: January 14, 2023 @ 4:32 pm
Madison School Board hired a new technology team on Wednesday including (from left) Brooke Kopitzke, assistant technology director; Joshua Taylor, technology director; and Seth Young, technology coordinator. The three new employees all currently serve at Jennings County but will begin work at Madison on Jan. 30.
Madison School Board hired a new technology team on Wednesday including (from left) Brooke Kopitzke, assistant technology director; Joshua Taylor, technology director; and Seth Young, technology coordinator. The three new employees all currently serve at Jennings County but will begin work at Madison on Jan. 30.
Madison Consolidated Schools will soon have its own technology team in place after the hiring of three Jennings County staffers at Wednesday’s school board meeting.
The school corporation’s technology operations have been out-sourced in recent years, but Superintendent Dr. Teresa Brown, who previously worked at Jennings County, said the decision was made to bring operations in-house after canceling a contract with Five Star Technology Solutions last month.
“It just wasn’t fitting the needs we had in Madison so we wanted to have a more efficient system that we felt like we would have by hiring our own team instead of out-sourcing technology,” Brown said, noting the school corporation’s staff was surveyed about hiring an in-house technology team. “There was definitely an interest and a need based on their responses, so that’s the direction we took.”
Those hired include Joshua Taylor, as technology director; Brooke Kopitzke, as assistant technology director; and Seth Young as technology coordinator. All three are coming to Madison from the Jennings County School Corporation, where they each served the same roles. “The jobs were posted and it looked like a good opportunity,” said Taylor.
All three begin work with Madison Consolidated Schools on Monday, Jan. 30. They will join Alex Hobson, technology coordinator, who was previously the only MCS technology employee who was not provided by Five Star. The technology staff will additionally include Molly McCulley, a data management specialist who assumed that role last summer.
“This will serve our students and staff more efficiently” because there will be personnel available locally to provide support more promptly when needed while also saving the school corporation money, Brown said. “They’ll be here on staff in our buildings.”
In another personnel matter, Lori Slygh was hired as assistant director of programs, effective March 27. Slygh, currently a counselor at Southwestern High School, had served two years on the Madison school board, completing her term at the end of last year.
Brown said Slygh will work under Tara McKay, assistant superintendent of special programs, as part of the process of replacing other personnel that have left the school corporation. Shelli Reetz, the former director of Student Services, departed last fall and Collette Bronkella, who resigned as the preschool coordinator effective Jan. 4.
“So, instead of hiring two, we’re hiring one position and sort of consolidating them together,” Brown said.
Slygh’s start date at Madison will be right after spring break for both Southwestern and Madison. “She wants to work with her kids (at Southwestern) and we respect that. It gives her time to finish up with the seniors.”
In extra-curricular positions, Sam Johnson was hired as girls head wrestling coach while Shannon Barger was hired as assistant girls golf coach.
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