Patrick
Nelson, Associate Superintendent for School Operations, oversees school
operations within the Amphitheater School District. This oversight includes
responsibility for the daily activities, programs, and personnel issues
for the district's 18 schools, K-12. Mr. Nelson serves in the Superintendent's
Cabinet and directly supervises the Executive Directors of Student Services
and Curriculum and Instruction.
National, State and District
testing administrations and analysis along with supervision of school administrative
hiring fall in Mr. Nelson's purview. He oversees the programmatic planning
for the New High School and coordinates the efforts of the district's long-term
disciplinary hearings.
Among the departments that
report to Mr. Nelson are elementary libraries, open enrollment, psychology,
health services, language acquisition, Native American education, and REACH
(Gifted Education). Specific areas that he gathers data and provides analysis
include intersessions, open enrollment, special projects and interscholastic
activities.