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Charles City hires new high school principal, middle school associate

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The Charles City Community School District announced two new administrators this weekend.

Bryan Jurrens has been offered the position of principal of the Charles City High School, and Thomas Harskamp has been offered the Charles City Middle School associate administrator position, the school district announced in a press release.

Each of the appointments is pending approval by the school board and a background check. If approved, their employment will officially begin on July 1.

“We are so pleased to have both Bryan and Tom join the Charles City Community School District family,” Mike Fisher, incoming superintendent of the Charles City Community School District, said in the release.

“After an extremely competitive process with excellent candidates, Bryan and Tom quickly distinguished themselves as highly effective school leaders,” Fisher said. “Their proven success around relationships, visibility, communication and progressive thinking made them the best fit for our schools. We thank the teachers, staff, students, and administrators that helped us work through a rigorous hiring process to name our new leaders.”

Twenty-one people applied for the high school principal position and 29 people applied for the middle school associate administrator position.

Jurrens is currently the head assistant principal at Waterloo East High School and Harskamp is dean of students at Marrs Magnet Middle School in Omaha, Nebraska.

Jurrens succeeds Josh Johnson, who has accepted a regional administrator position with the Central Rivers Area Education Agency. Harskamp succeeds Keith Reuter, who has accepted the K-12 principal position with the Clarksville Community School District.

Jurrens has served more than eight years in the Waterloo Community School District. His roles include serving as the administrator for the 9th Grade Academy, Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes, creation and management of school improvement plans, implementation of building-wide MTSS (multi-tiered system of supports) and building-wide data collection and analysis focused on equity.

As dean of students at Marrs Magnet Middle School, Harskamp directed and maintained behavior plans for students, coached teachers and developed testing data to establish weekly academic targets for students. Before his leadership role in his Omaha-based middle school, he served as a middle school math and science teacher since 2001.

The Charles City Community School District Board of Education is expected to take official action on these two contracts at the regular meeting on Monday.

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