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Show Search Underway For School Superintendent Members of the Garfield County School District Board of Education began advertising this week for a new superintendent of schools with the resignation, effective July 31, of present Supt. Henry Jolley. Jolley will become superintendent of schools in the Wasatch School District headquartered in Heber City on Aug. 4. He said his new position at Heber City will not be radically different from Garfield, since both are essentially rural areas. The district where he will function as chief adminstrative officer has experienced some rapid growth, Jolley said, and has two schools on a modified year-round program. The population there, he said, is centered cen-tered within a 20-mile radius of the school district, with four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school with about 630 pupils. Jolley became superintendent of schools in Garfield County in October Oc-tober of 1977 after serving as principal of Bryce Valley School for the 1976-77 school year. Prior to that he had been an executor in southern California schools, returning to Tropic where he was born in 1976. Asked what he felt had brought him the most satisfaction as superintendent in Garfield County, he listed first the district's progress in reading skills. He said one of his principal goals had been to overhaul and strengthen the total curriculum. He said he felt teachers, students and parents are all proud of the success of the district's present reading progam and that those successes are being reflected now at all levels in the district. He said the district had used the Ginn 720 program for six years, switching to Reading Mastery for the past three. He said he is also proud that district teachers are approximately 80 percent computer trained. Their ability to use computers skillfully has allowed them to utilize more modern techniques in instruction, he said. " I .. ) " " . " il 1 r u Henry Jolley He said that Garfield County School District is known nationwide for its "telelearning" program which was developed locally. The program makes it possible to teach students in three different high schools in the district simultaneously with only one teacher who never has to leave his home school. Recently the program has been tried in Pennsylvania with great success. He said Garfield County can be proud that it has literally pioneered distance teaching using modern technology. He said the district has made software for its telelearning program available and that the district partners with other districts exchange the latest improvements im-provements and developments of the program. Jolley said that a group of students in Mansfield High School in Tioga County, Penn. had scored higher on calculus finals after successfully completing a telelearning class beamed from Liberty, Penn. where students receiving the same instruction from the "live" teacher failed to score as well. Telelearning, he said, gives all students equal access to all courses needed. Schools in the northwest section of the seven-district Wasatch County in Utah are curently using telelearning, with software adapted for the district's IBM computers. Garfield County pioneered its software sof-tware for Apple computers, he said. During his almost nine-year tenure as superintendent, he was gratified to see the district's policy handbook completely revised and updated, a goal he was given when he was hired as superintendent by the school board in 1977. He said he feels that the district's program, schedules, staff and budget are in place for the next year which should make the transition to a new superintendent go smoothly. Any new superintendent coming in should be able to carry out the plan for the coming school year and then be able to move into panning for the following year without difficulty, he said. Jolley and his wife LaVerne are parents of five boys, one married and four still at home. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jolley of Tropic. School board members will meet Thursday night, June 12 to further discuss releasing Jolley from his contract and prepare for the transition tran-sition to a new superintendent. Jolley said he will spend a week with the district's new superintendent' before moving on. The board has contacted all schools in Utah and made its brochure announcing the position opening available to all professionls. Board President Quay Simons will accept applications until 4 p.m. on Wednesday, June 25. Brochures and information are available at the district office, 145 East Center Street in Panguitch. |