NEWS RELEASE # 40
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 17, 2010
APS Chief Financial Officer Graduates from Broad Superintendents Academy
Aurora Public Schools Chief Financial Officer E. Casey Wardynski recently graduated from the 2010 Broad Superintendents Academy. The academy is a 10-month executive management training program run by The Broad Center to prepare top executives from education, military, business, nonprofit and government sectors to lead urban public school systems.
In his current position, Wardynski leads finance, food service, procurement, risk management and print services for Aurora Public Schools. He is also a member of the APS Community Workforce Planning Team – an innovative effort to encourage student workforce readiness. In addition to his official role in APS, Wardynski also serves as a math tutor for 9th grade students at Vista PEAK K-8 School. He is also a member of the 2011 Leadership Aurora class and Congressman Perlmutter’s committee for nominating young adults to enter the nation’s service academies.
“School district leaders are responsible for making sure that central office staff and available resources directly support teachers and students in the classroom,” said Eli Broad, philanthropist and founder of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which funds The Broad Center. “These academy graduates have the skills and experience needed to focus people at all levels of their school system on what matters most: enabling each and every student to succeed academically.”
Col(R) Wardynski previously served as Director of the Office of Economic & Manpower Analysis at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he also was an associate professor of economics. As director, he pioneered the innovative use of game technology and new media to support Army marketing and led the Army to create and deploy practices that better utilize the skills and talents of 60,000 Army officers. Wardynski’s innovations, which have earned national recognition for excellence from Harvard University and the Council for Excellence in Government, are used by more than 30 agencies and have achieved annual efficiency and effectiveness gains worth more than $200 million.
Wardynski’s class is the ninth class to graduate since The Broad Superintendents Academy was founded in 2002. The academy is the only program in the country that recruits and trains non-traditional superintendent candidates as well as stand-out career educators.
Wardynski and his wife live in the Conservatory and have a daughter in the Army who just returned from Iraq, a son in the Coast Guard and a son who is a cadet at West Point.
APS Superintendent John Barry is also a graduate of the academy.
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