This nauseating profile should tell one why he shouldn't have gotten the award:
At each stage of Heath Morrison’s rapidly ascendant career as an educator, those around him have spotted great things bursting through. They’ve seen his keen understanding of what makes a classroom shine, his collaborative spirit, the capacity to listen before acting decisively and notably his empathy for struggling students.
Those personal qualities, among others, remain regularly in evidence, midway through Morrison’s third year as superintendent of the 65,000-student Washoe County Public Schools in Reno, Nev. These attributes also have propelled him to the 2012 National Superintendent of the Year Award. At 45, he is the second-youngest and earliest-career superintendent to receive the honor in the program’s 25th year.
If the man had cared at all about students instead of going for the material fast track, he would have toiled away as a teacher. Teachers who are in it for the kids don't go into administration unless they are in the last years of their careers.
This is a guy who knows how to play the political game in public ed to the point he got himself the national award.
I predict there will be greater riches and prominence. He won't stay with WCSD.
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