Hello Troops,
The Alpine School District is advertising a job opening for a Teacher on Special Assignment to replace Megan Warner as Space Center Director. Megan replaced me as the director of the CMSEC when I retired last May and took a position at Renaissance Academy to direct the Farpoint Space Education Center when it opens in the Fall of 2015.

Megan has done a wonderful job directing the Space Center. She is a gifted and talented flight director and excellent manager who is greatly admired by the Center's staff and volunteers. She has worked tirelessly to maintain the spirit and vision of the Space Center.
District administrators want a certified teacher directing the Space Center. Megan is an hourly teacher aide and therefore does not qualify for the position. Megan is not sure what she will do once the new director is hired. She may return to school to finish her degree, remain at the Center and work as an assistant to the new director, or work at Farpoint or another school with a Space Center program.

It's weird looking at this job posting for the directorship of the Space Center I founded over two decades ago. I read the qualifications posted and wonder what this new TSA will do with the program. Will he or she continue our pioneering blend of science and science fiction, or change the Center's focus to something more Common Core as the district wanted when the Center was closed in October 2012 (and then reopened only because of the outcry from Utah County's citizens)?

The District's true intentions will be known once the new TSA is given his or her marching orders from above in August. Regardless of what happens at the Space Center, it is important to know that the Space Center concept you've all come to love will continue at Renaissance Academy, the Discovery Space Center and other select charter schools in Utah County. We've a lot to do and I'll need your help, so please be ready to put your shoulder to the wheel when called upon.

Mr. Williamson

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