As of today, Hudson City School District has a new superintendent. Todd Hilgendorff comes to the role after serving in the administration of Greenville Central School District, where he helped lead the school out of a Targeted Support and Improvement designation. He’ll face the same challenge in Hudson, which also has a TSI designation – meaning the state has identified areas of student performance as subpar. As Hilgendorff recently told WAMC, his philosophy as an administrator is rooted in his previous experience as a science teacher.
INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT
Hilgendorff: I try to stay grounded in what that feels like to be a teacher and the challenges that come with it. So at Greenville, I had teachers that knew, like, “Hey, Mr. H likes to come in and do the squid dissection.”…