(Estherville)– The man hired as the new Superintendent at Estherville-Lincoln Central says he’s excited about becoming that district’s next leader. Aiddy Phomvisay was raised in Alta. He comes to ELC with an extensive background in education…
“I’m a Cyclone. Taught at the Ames middle school and high school. Then I was fortunate enough to be a national fellow and took time off from teaching and taught at Iowa State University where I got my Masters Degree and then from there completed my certificate for superintendency. Some of the communities I have served include West Des Moines where I was the Associate Principal at West Des Moines Valley. From there I went to Marshalltown, a wonderful four years serving that extraordinary community. We did extraordinary things together. I attribute that to the community as a team, but was fortunate to be named the 2014 Principal of the Year as the result of our good work in Marshalltown. From there I went on to also serve as a director of a regional academy in Des Moines, and then the Executive Director of Teaching and Learning in Ottumwa, and then most recently I was really attracted to Fairfield where I was able to serve this community two years as they went through so much trauma and strife due to the very, very unfortunate situation that transpired with the murder of a teacher.”
Phomvisay says he looks forward to getting to know everyone in the district and plans to foster relationships with businesses and industries…
“So that we can do things that I’ve done in other communities such as expand programming in the area of work-based learning, and then work on major initiatives that may include some facilities improvement. I appreciate the hard work that outgoing Superintendent Paul, the board of directors and staff have done. They’ve been very astute to the financial health of the district. I need to be continue to be astute in that area because I know there are some healthy indicators that exist but there are also some yellow lights that need to have some attention and those include monitoring our unspent balance authority, our solvency ratio, and then our special education deficit spending. And then as a former ELL myself, I’ve been an instructional leader in working with English language learners and really want to focus on getting much support both financially as well as academically to our learners so that they can close the gaps with their peers. When we do so it is absolutely life changing.”
Phomvisay will succeed ELC’s current Superintendent, Tara Paul, who will be stepping down July 1st. She has accepted the Superintendent’s position with the Indianola Community School District.
