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The Superintendent Search

The Iowa City Community School District conducted a search for a new superintendent during the summer of 1999. The board selected Dr. Lane Plugge, formerly superintendent in Grand Island, Nebraska. Dr. Plugge began work August 16, 1999. During the first ten days of May citizens had an opportunity to participate in a "community audit" conducted by the search firm, The Bickert Group. Although the time for that opportunity has past, the community survey and its embodiment in the Bickert Group's "Superintendent Search Profile Report" of May 11, 1998, remains a valuable document. Also available is a Web site created at that time that was designed to encourage citizen participation in the search process.

Who is Nick Johnson?

Like to know more about Nick? You can examine his entry in Who's Who in America or read a longer bio, activities reports and a 300-plus-page bibliography online. There's even more linked from his main Web page.

Once there, under "Recent Publications" you'll find much of what he's written and said during the past 18 months or so.

If you'd like to find out more of what Nick Johnson had to say about K-12 education before he gave thought to running for School Board, you might find it useful to look at one or more of the following from that list:

His keynote address to the Iowa City Community School District Preschool Workshop of teachers and administrators prior to the opening of the District's 1997-1998 school year entitled "Schools for the New Millennium"

A keynote address he delivered at the Herbert Hoover Library to school children participating in the Kettering Foundation program of the Grant Wood AEA, "National Issues Forum," April 3, 1997, with the title "Governing America: 'What do you mean?' and 'How do you know?'"

"Literature and Technology," a talk presented at the invitation of the Iowa City Community School District Curriculum Review Group, March 19, 1997

The piece titled "So You Want to Be a Lawyer: A Play in Four Acts," although addressed to law students, contains themes and observations equally applicable to high school students

"Focus wrong to attack alcohol problem" is a May 5, 1998, op-ed column for the "Opinion" section of the Iowa City Press-Citizen newspaper, putting the case that alcohol is the nation's, and Iowa City's, "number one hard drug problem," and that the community's "Stepping Up" proposals for reducing "binge drinking" don't, so far, seem adequate to the task (Although "Stepping Up" focuses on college students, alcohol is clearly the major drug problem among K-12 students as well.)

Board	How to contact the ICCSD Board members; meeting minutes; old policies; new policies	Iowa City Community School District; Web pages: official, Dale Shultz, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Gazette	ICCSD
Cities	The ICCSD includes the cities of Coralville, Hills, Iowa City and North Liberty, Iowa; here are links to cities' information	The ICCSD 1999 superintendent search; background on Nicholas Johnson	Other
Columns	NJ's Iowa City Press-Citizen every-two-week columns about K-12 and school board issues	Why this page, writing, resources, other pages, are made available to the District's stakeholders and others	Purpose
Elections	Seven board members, three-year terms, at least two elected each year; reports of 1998, 1999 elections	Over 200 sites; agencies, organizations, other countries, parents' aids, publications, teaching materials	Research

Lecture and Other Contacts for Nicholas Johnson

(Note that video samples of Nicholas Johnson public appearances are available from this site.)

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Contacts for

Nicholas Johnson

Voice: USA + 800-500-2585 or USA + 310-230-2243

Fax: USA + 310-230-2248

E-mail: SpkrsCrnr@aol.com

Postal: 15332 Antioch Street (209), Pacific Palisades CA 90272, USA

Voice: USA + 908-253-0641 or USA + 908-253-8600

Fax: USA + 908-253-8601

E-mail: lest@leighbureau.com

Postal: 50 Division St. (200), Somerville NJ 08876-2955, USA

Voice: USA + 319-337-5555
Fax: USA + 319-335-9019
E-mail: njohnson@inav.net
Postal: Box 1876, Iowa City IA 52244-1876, USA

Parcels: Nicholas Johnson, UI College of Law, Melrose and Byington, Iowa City IA 52242-1113, USA

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