Milford school board expected to hire John Spieser as superintendent on Thursday – The Cincinnati Enquirer

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The Milford Board of Education is expected to name the districts director of human resources as its new superintendent on Thursday, June 18.

John Spieser is in line to succeed Nancy House at the helm of the Milford Exempted Village School District, which serves about 6,600 students from the city of Milford, Miami Township, Miamiville and parts of Goshen and Union townships.

House is retiring July 31 after 38 years as an educator five of them as Milfords superintendent. Spieser is expected to assume the post on Aug. 1.

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After a very unique and exhaustive process, the board is very happy to come to a conclusion in selecting Mr. Spieser as the next superintendent, school board president Chris Hamm said.

The depth and review of this process and the amount of data and information collected allowed the board to make an informed decision in selecting Milfords next leader. We are excited for Mr. Spieser to continue to carry our Milford family forward as we face new challenges and new opportunities.

Spieser began his career in education with the Milford schools 26 years ago.

He taught life science at Milford Junior High for six years, then earned his administrators license and worked as assistant principal of Mason High School and then of Bethel-Tate High School.

Spieser was principal and director of K-12 curriculum for the Little Miami Schools, followed by tenures as principal of the Glen Este Campus inthe West Clermont Local Schools and, for 15 years, of Clark Montessori High School in Hyde Park.

He returned to Milford in 2015 to serve one year as director of secondary curriculum before becoming director of human resources in 2016.

As a young teacher in 1994, Milford taught me about family, Spieser said.

Every experience I have had in other districts I always compared it to Milford. It was the students, the staff, the families and the community that brought me back to Milford five years ago.

Im so thankful to be the next superintendent, Spieser said.

Some 24 people applied for the Milford schools superintendent post.

The board of education hired a representative of the Ohio School Boards Association for $8,500 to assist in the search and more than 600 people participated in community surveys on qualities deemed important for the next superintendent.

The school board chose nine people for first-round interviews, which were conducted via Zoom videoconference because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The list was narrowed to three finalists, including Spieser, after that.

Last week, the finalists were interviewed by three different groups: the Milford Board of Education, a panel of Milford schools principals and a panel of community, government and business leaders.

The latter two panels then gave the school board their evaluations of the candidates.

A job offer was extended to Spieser after an executive session of the Milford Board of Education on June 11, and he accepted, district spokeswoman Wendy Planicka said.

The school board will vote on a contract for Spieser on Thursday at a meeting set to beginat 7 p.m. in board offices at 1099 Ohio 131 in Milford.

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