Charles W

Charles W. Fowler President

4 Penn Lane School Leadership, LLC

Exeter, New Hampshire 03833 106 Morningside Drive, #25

Phone: (603) 580-5117 New York, New York 10027

Phone: (800) 975-1730

FAX: (603) 580-1124

Leadschools@aol.com

Education

B.S. Business/English University at Albany 1960

M.S. Guidance/Psychology University at Albany 1961

Ed.D Educational Administration Teachers College, Columbia University 1969

Post-Doctoral Studies:

Assessment and Learning, Harvard University, 1999

Privatizing Public Education, Oxford University, England 2003

Honors

New York State Wheelock Scholar (1959)

Cooperative Education Study of Eastern Europe (1967) and China (1981)

School Publications Award, School Management (1967)

Honorary Societies: Pi Omega Pi, Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa

Presidential Citations For Conspicuous Service to Public Education:

Illinois Association of School Administrators (1973)

American Association of School Administrators (1975)

Citation for Distinguished Educational and Civic Contributions to the State of

Connecticut by the Connecticut General Assembly (1977, 1986)

Kettering Foundation Fellowship (1977)

Honorary Life Members/Distinguished Service Award

Connecticut State PTA (1979, 1981)

National Congress of Parents and Teachers (1985)

Designation as one of America's Top 100 School Executives by Executive Educator

Magazine (1980, 1984, 1987, 1989)

Outstanding Volunteer Award, United Way of Eastern Connecticut (1980)

Outstanding Educator Award, 1984, Doctoral Association of New York

Surgeon General C. Everett Koop Medal of Honor for "courage, compassion, leadership

in helping school children infected by HIV” (1989)

Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Chairman's Cup Award For Exceptional Service

To the Community and Chamber (1990)

Listed in Who's Who in The East, Who’s Who in the Midwest, Who’s Who in America,

Who’s Who in American Education

Florida Educational Research Association Award for "Leadership in the Application of

Research to the Formation of Educational Policy" (1994)

Distinguished Citizen Award, Goodwill Industries of Sarasota/Manatee Counties (1995)

Dean's Award for Service to Education, New York Institute of Technology (1996)

Children's Champion Award, Coalition for Child Care, Nassau County (1997)

Educator of the Year Award, New York State Association for Supervision and

Curriculum Development (1997), St. John’s Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa (1998)

Amy Bull Christ Award (1999), Promoting Women and Minorities for the

Superintendency, New York State Association of Women Administrators

Distinguished Service Award (1999), Nassau-Suffolk School Board Association

Excellence in Education Award (2000), SUNY Albany Alumni Association

Distinguished Service Award (2005) American Association of School Administrators

Education Partner Award (2007) Nassau BOCES

Professional Offices Held: President, Suburban School Superintendents; President,

Nassau County Council of School Superintendents; President, Southern

Fairfield County Superintendents’ Association; President-Elect, Florida

Association of District School Superintendents; Chairman, American

Association of School Administrators State-National Relations Committee;

Executive Secretary, Suburban School Superintendents; Member, Board of Directors, The Horace Mann League

Professional Experience

1960 Research Assistant, Capital Area School Development Association, Albany, NY

1961 High School Teacher, Fox Lane High School, Bedford, New York

Adult Education Teacher, Pleasantville, New York

1962 Assistant Superintendent, Bedford Public Schools, Mount Kisco, New York

1970 Superintendent of Schools, DeKalb, Illinois

1976 Superintendent of Schools, Town of Fairfield, Connecticut

1985 Superintendent of Schools, Sarasota County, Florida

1995 District Superintendent of Schools, Nassau BOCES and Nassau County, New York

1998 Superintendent of Schools, Hewlett-Woodmere, New York (retired 6/30/2004)

Other Professional Experience

Consultant To:

Confederation of Local School Boards, City of New York

Army Dependent Schools, Fort Knox, Kentucky

Great Neck Board of Education, Great Neck, New York

Greenville County Schools, Greenville, South Carolina

Guilford Public Schools, Guilford, Connecticut

Illinois Association of School Boards

North Haven Board of Education, North Haven, Connecticut

Old Saybrook Public Schools, Old Saybrook, Connecticut

Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company

Skokie Public Schools, Skokie, Illinois

Springfield Public Schools, Springfield, Ohio

Brevard County Public Schools, Daytona, Florida

North Salem, New York Public Schools

Bronxville, New York Public Schools

Nyack, New York Public Schools

Briarcliff, New York Public Schools

Pocantico Hills, New York Public Schools

Nassau County, New York Board of Cooperative Educational Services

Glen Cove City School District

Baldwin, New York Public Schools

Garden City, New York Public Schools

Harborfields, New York Public Schools

Patchogue-Medford, New York Public Schools

Bellmore-Merrick, New York Public Schools

Carle Place, New York Public Schools

Cold Spring Harbor, New York Public Schools

Massapequa, New York Public Schools

Oyster Bay-East Norwich Public Schools

East Williston, New York Public Schools

Roslyn, New York Public Schools

Northport, New York Public Schools

Westport, Connecticut Public Schools

Pequannock Township, New Jersey Public Schools

Hastings-on-Hudson, New York Public Schools

Andrus Children’s Center, Yonkers, New York

Ridgewood, New Jersey Public Schools

West-Hempstead, New York Public Schools

East Meadow, New York Public Schools

Eastport-South Manor, New York Public Schools

Southampton, New York Public Schools

Katonah-Lewisboro, New York Public Schools

Amityville, New York Public Schools

Island Trees, New York Public Schools

Bedford Central, New York Public Schools

Kings Park, New York Public Schools

East Islip, New York Public Schools

Ossining, New York Public Schools

Southold, New York Public Schools

Summit, New Jersey Public Schools

Mineola, New York Public Schools

New Hyde Park-Garden City Park, New York Public Schools

Valley Stream #30, New York Public Schools

Sag Harbor, New York Public Schools

Hempstead, New York Public Schools

Tenafly, New Jersey Public Schools

Pawling, New York Public Schools

Adjunct Professor:

University of Connecticut, Florida State University, Hofstra University,

Teachers College-Columbia University

Publications

1961 Interests of Junior High School Students, Albany, New York: Center for

Field Services; second printing.

1961 Salaries and Salary Policies of CASDA Schools, Albany, New York: Capital Area

School Development Association

1965 “What You Can Learn From Teachers Who Quit”, School Management, October

1968 An American's View of Education in Poland, Transcription for broadcast

by Radio Free Europe.

1969 "Chief School Administrator Turnover in New York State", New York

State School Board Journal, Fall 1969.

1969 A Study of the Relationship Between the Quality of Chief School

Administrator Selection Procedures and Subsequent Performance

Ratings of the Chief School Administrator by His Board of Education

Albany, New York: New York State School Boards Association.

(Republished by the Missouri, New Mexico, and South Dakota School

Boards Association). A Research Monograph

1972 "Fill Those Loopholes in Your Architect's Agreement", Nation's Schools,

September 1972.

1972 "The Superintendent Looks at Accountability", N.I.E.R.A. Bulletin.

Spring 1972.

1973 "How You Hire Your Superintendent Makes a Difference", American

School Journal, March 1973.

1973 "Serrano Two Years Later: Continuing Implications for Illinois School

Boards", Illinois School Board Journal, Summer 1973.

1974 "DeKalb Takes on Illinois in Court", Nation's Schools, April 1974.

1975 "Financial Characteristics of Four Illinois Unit School District",

Thresholds in Secondary Education, January 1975.

1975 "Quality in Our School", Illinois School Board Journal, May 1975.

(Reprinted in The School Trustee, Saskatchewan, Canada, July 1975).

1975 "Should We Take Care Lest We 'Equalize' our Schools into Mediocrity?",

American School Board Journal, 1975.

1975 "Community Support for Building Programs", American School and

University, September 1975.

1975 "How to Let (and Help) Your Superintendent be a SUPERintendent",

American School Board Journal, September 1975.

1975 "Point of Order" - Monthly Column for School Board Members, Illinois

School Board Journal, 1975 and 1976.

1976 "Response to 'The Great Classroom Debacle", Wall Street Journal, August 2, 1976.

1977 "When the Superintendent Fails", American School Board Journal, February 1975. (Reprint: American Education Digest).

1977 "Schools Are Given Less Time to Teach", American School Board Journal,

September 1977. (Reprint: American Education Digest).

1978 "On Knowing Less and Less about More and More", Hartford Courant,

March 12, 1978. (Reprint: Illinois School Board Journal).

1978 "School-Site Budgeting and Why It Could be THE Answer to Your Problems",

Executive Educator, October 1978

1979 "Toward the Year 2004", Thresholds, August 1979.

1979 "Vouchers - Pitfall or Promise", American School Board Journal,

September 18, 1979.

1980 "Legislated Learning: A Review", American School Board Journal, March 1980.

1980 "What Are Schools For?", Choices, Connecticut State Department of Education,

September 1980.

1981 "Why It's More Expensive to Educate Fewer Students", The New York Times.

1981 "Evaluating Administrative Performance: A Review", Executive Educator,

February 1981.

1981 "How to Meet Federal Requirements for Education of the Handicapped--

And Remain Solvent", Managing Schools in Hard Times.

1982 "Prayer in Schools Amendment--It's Not the Answer", New York Times.

1982 "Entry--A Book Review", American School Board Journal, December 1982.

1983 "Free Market Should Prevail in Education", The New York Times, January 9th

1983 "In Defense of America's Public Schools", The New York Times, June 5, 1983.

1983 "Born To Be A Superintendent", feature article by Jerome Cramer,

Executive Educator, July 1983.

1983 "To the Commission on Excellence: Heal Thyself", The American School Board

Journal, September.

1983 "Should We Import Japan's High Schools Too?", The American School Board

Journal, December 1983

1984 The Organized Executive, a Review, Executive Educator, July.

1984 "Public Education: America's Social & Economic Cornerstone" same article

published under different titles in The New York Times, Hartford Courant, and

Fairfield Citizen News, July.

1984 Co-author, Microcomputers Go To School, Pluribus Press.

1984 "With Liberty and Justice For All--Commentary on the Recent Court Decision

on Connecticut's School Finance Formula", Connecticut Association of

School Boards Journal, Spring 1984.

1984 "Read this Before Pulling the Video Plug", American School Board Journal,

December 1984.

1985 "When Sex Scandals Rock Your School"--a book review--Executive Educator,

October 1985.

1987 "Steps to Take When Your Career Ladder Begins to Look Like a Gangplank"--a

book review--Executive Educator.

1988 "The Supreme Court Has Been on Our Side All Along--A Practitioner's View of

the Hazelwood Decision", Florida ASCD Journal, Spring 1988.

1989 "Educational Technology of the Future", The Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Technology & Education, March 1988.

1989 "Parental Choice of Schools: Catalyst for Change?", Undereducated/Uncompetitive

USA, Union Carbide Corporation 1989. (Reprinted in the Florida School Board

Association Journal and selected as "Best Article for 1989 by the Association.)

1993 "Technology and Changing Teacher Roles: Keys to School Reform", Florida

Technology and Education Quarterly, Winter 1993.

1994 "State Comes Up Short in Educating Its Kids", invited OP Ed piece, St. Petersburg Times, August 21.

1994 "School Vouchers", invited OP Ed piece, St. Petersburg Times, October 10.

1994 "Tying Down the Fly-Away School", American School & University,

December 1994.

1995 "Making School Reform and Accountability Work", St. Petersburg Times, May 1995.

1996 Why Are We Not Surprised", New England Association of School Superintendents, Spring 1996.

1996 Getting There From Here, New England Development Council, Spring

2002 “The HR Role: Key to School District Success”, Best Practices, May/June

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