{"id":48382,"date":"2021-02-24T19:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T02:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/search-underway-for-new-mancos-superintendent\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:42:40","slug":"search-underway-for-new-mancos-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/search-underway-for-new-mancos-superintendent\/","title":{"rendered":"Search underway for new Mancos superintendent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6f11ef8f-7c17-40cb-ac43-5ce46d64b772&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" alt=\"Mancos School District Superintendent Brian Hanson speaks at a graduation ceremony in 2016.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mancos School District Superintendent Brian Hanson speaks at a graduation ceremony in 2016.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>With longtime Superintendent Brian Hanson set to retire, Mancos School District is looking for its next leader.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson announced his resignation last summer, agreeing to finish out the school year after 13 years on the job. The district started advertising for the job late last month and hopes to fill the position before May.<\/p>\n<p>School board member Blake Mitchell said qualified candidates have already applied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had a really outstanding superintendent, Mitchell said. \u201cThose are going to be big shoes to fill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hanson instituted project-based learning in Mancos. This involves having students take part in lengthy projects in which they develop knowledge by engaging in problem-solving and developing a product or presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson also filed for Colorado \u201cinnovation status\u201d for Mancos schools, exempting the schools from some state guidelines and standards.<\/p>\n<p>The school board\u2019s hiring committee seeks a candidate with experience with administration, budgets and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever you get a new superintendent, it\u2019s the same thing as a new CEO,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n<p>The committee includes non-board members like Clara Martinez. Martinez has lived in Mancos for about 30 years and has had children go through Mancos schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great district, and I advocate for it,\u201d Martinez said.<\/p>\n<p>The first day on the job for the new superintendent will be July 1.<\/p>\n<p>A community meeting seeking public input on the search will take place on March 2 at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria at Mancos Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:anicotera@the-journal.com\">anicotera@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>set to retire at end of school year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,83,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-mancos","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87369,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48382\/revisions\/87369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48382"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}