School District Welcomes New Assistant Superintendent of Finance, Facilities & Operations

Ron Clamser, Jr. officially joined the Dobbs Ferry School District on January 22nd as the new Assistant Superintendent for Finance, Facilities and Operations. Mr. Clamser’s appointment was approved by the Board of Education at its January 9 ^th meeting.

 

Since 2014, Mr. Clamser had been the Assistant Superintendent for Business and Human Resources for the Mahopac Central School District in Mahopac, New York. In that role, he oversaw the business office , transportation, technology, buildings and grounds, food services and more recently human resources. The Mahopac District comprises five schools, approximately 4,500 students and over 800 staff. Previously, Mr. Clamser was the School Business Executive for the Clinton-Essex-Warren-Washington BOCES in Plattsburgh, New York for four years, and prior to that, served as Business Manager for the Beekmantown Central School District in West Chazy, New York. Read full news release on Mr. Clamser .

District Looks to Recruit Diverse Faculty

DFSD recently hosted a half-day workshop for the Rivertowns school districts, presented by NEMNET Founder & CEO Warren Reid, focusing on the challenges, best practices and strategies associated with diversity faculty recruitment. Superintendents, Principals and other personnel directly involved in hiring staff attended the presentation and talked about expanding their minority recruitment efforts. The participants learned how and where to access information and resources that will assist them in meeting their diversity goals, and left with concrete strategies for success. Check out the NEMNET website for more information.

MS Bridges Falling Down

The Ashford Avenue bridge engineers could have called upon Dobbs Ferry 8th graders, who are now experts in designing truss bridges. Working in pairs, the students glued together between 90 and 120 popsicle sticks to construct their bridges in teacher J.P. Kaminski's design class. The strongest bridge supported 190 pounds of stress!

Using the computer program AutoCAD Drawing, students chose from nine basic designs, adding their own modifications to the template. Each team had an allotted budget of $2,000...virtual money of course. The bridges needed to be functional, as well as aesthetically pleasing. The end product also had to match the paper rendering exactly. Taking each bridge for a test drive to calculate its efficiency rating determined the final grade and who won the free pizza. This is one of the students' favorite STEM projects! Click to read full Enterprise story!