Jim Hardy
James Hardy
Email: jhardy@masc.org
Office: 617-523-8454
Mobile: 508-930-4524
MASC Experience
- Field Director, February 1996 - Present
- Consultant on superintendent searches for Massachusetts school districts
- Workshop presenter: Workshop for New School Committee Members; School Committee/Superintendent Roles and Responsibilities; School Committee Self-Evaluation; Governing through Policy; Team Building; Conflict Resolution; Superintendent Evaluation; Goal Setting; Collective Bargaining; Effective Meetings; Multigenerational Community Engagement, School Budget and Finance; Having Difficult Conversations; Working with Difficult People, Why Teams Underachieve; Use of Data in Presentations; Open Meeting Law
- Adviser to School Committees on issues including: school district policy, team building, effective meetings, education reform, school building issues, governance
- Academy of School Leadership New Member Orientation program-Charting the Course
- District Governance Support Program
Memberships & Affiliations
- Division of Labor Relations Advisory Council-Governor Appointee, 2008-2016
- East Bridgewater Board of Selectmen 2000–2004
- East Bridgewater School Committee 1993–1999; Chair: 1995–1996; Vice Chair: 1993–95; Budget and Negotiations Subcommittees: 1993–1999
- East Bridgewater Middle School Building Addition Committee, Chair: 1989–2000
- MASC Division III, Treasurer 1994–1996
- MASC Task Force on Collective Bargaining Chair 1994–1996; Staff Representative 1996 – present
- National Affiliation of Superintendent Searchers, President 2004
- NSBA Federation of Member Trainers Chair 2003
- American Association of School Policy Services, 1996-present