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Craig Hockenberry is an accomplished educator who has served as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent at various public schools in Ohio for the past 20 years. He holds an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio, an MA in education administration, and an undergraduate degree in elementary education.

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Craig Hockenberry is an accomplished educator who has served as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent at various public schools in Ohio for the past 20 years. He holds an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio, an MA in education administration, and an undergraduate degree in elementary education. Craig Hockenberry serves as the superintendent at the Poland Local Schools, a position he took up in May 2021.

The Poland Local Schools is a public school that was founded in 1802. It has close to 2000 students from kindergarten to grade 12 and is located on 3199 Dobbins Road, in Poland, Ohio. It has a teacher-to-student ratio of 1 to 20 and is ranked among the top 10 percent schools out of all 914 Ohio school districts because of its high reading and math proficiency. According to Ohio school test scores, Poland Local Schools have an 82 percent reading proficiency and an 84 percent math proficiency among its students. The school has maintained a graduation rate of 95 percent over the last 5 years.

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Craig Hockenberry is an accomplished educator who has served as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent at various public schools in Ohio for the past 20 years. He holds an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio, an MA in education administration, and an undergraduate degree in elementary education.

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An established Ohio educational leader, Craig Hockenberry gained a reputation for effective school transformation strategies while principal of Oyler School within the Cincinnati Public Schools. In April 2021, Craig Hockenberry was named as one of seven candidates in the Poland (Ohio) Board of Education’s search for an incoming superintendent.

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An established Ohio educational leader, Craig Hockenberry gained a reputation for effective school transformation strategies while principal of Oyler School within the Cincinnati Public Schools. In April 2021, Craig Hockenberry was named as one of seven candidates in the Poland (Ohio) Board of Education's search for an incoming superintendent.

The board undertook extensive due diligence that inc luded correspondence with past and current employers, with a focus on leadership qualities. Mr. Hockenberry was ultimately selected for the position of superintendent of the Poland Local Schools, having lived in Ohio for much of his life and with a proven track record in leading schools to academic success. In May, he was offered a three-year contract that will last until July 31, 2024.

The professional accomplishments informing Mr. Hockenberry's work has included developing career academies and a community learning center model. He also has a demonstrated commitment to expanding partnerships in the community, while overseeing new construction projects and ensuring that students gain access to essential services. The Poland school board's selection came at a time of critical importance, as COVID-19 and building realignment mandates have combine to add complexity to future planning.

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CRAIG HOCKENBERRY: Mental Services in Schools

By Craig D. Hockenberry

The early days of my career as a school leader in Cincinnati Public were filled with some extreme behaviors of students that pretty much took over my entire day and in many cases my evenings.  When I was principal at Oyler School in Lower Price Hill from the time we turned the lights on until the time we turned them off, most of the time we were handling behaviors that were totally out of our control.  We had situations that called for hours of physical restrain, attempted suicides, bizarre sexual behaviors, schizophrenia, and many others.

As you can imagine we spent countless hours away from instruction trying to solve these behaviors and protecting other kids.  The amount of loss instructional times was overwhelming and it played a critical role in our early days of poor student performance, however after many sleepless nights we came up with a way to treat these mental health issues and became one of the first schools in the region to develop a mental health partnership that had a huge positive impact on our school.

I was introduced to several people at St. Al’s Orphanage who has a 190 plus year history of working with students in the Cincinnati area.  The introduction quickly turned into a tour of Oyler and then almost immediately turned into them placing a mental health therapist inside our school.  His name was Bob Ryan and within weeks he had a FULL case load.  I remember him coming to me and saying, “Craig Hockenberry, we need another therapist and you are going to need additional office space”.

The weeks that followed turned into St. Al’s putting yet another full time therapist inside our school.  The two of them worked together shared some office space, worked out a schedule, and were very flexible in supporting our mental health needs.  (CRAIG HOCKENBERRY)

After six months are caseloads at Oyler continue to grow and grow and within two years of our partnership with St. Al’s we had added four full time therapist. Before I left to become superintendent of Manchester Local in Adams County we had added a psychiatrist and a doctor 3 days a week.  We had many amazing partnerships at Oyler and St. Al’s was right up there as being one of the most impactful.  They had a very efficient way of dealing with mental health issues that our students were experiencing by using therapy, medical, and adjusting placements.

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I remember taking Mr. Schiff on a tour of Oyler School in December of 2010.  We started with all the different services throughout the building that included; Mental Health, medical, college access, tutoring, parent center, vision center, social services, and I showed him the future plans for dental services.  I then took him through the high school, middle school, and elementary.  He was very engaging and interested in the concept of the Community Learning Center and with our partnership with Darlene Kamine.  Mr. Schiff had many questions about student achievement, social work, and other systems we have put in place to remove barriers for kids growing up in poverty. He asked all the right questions and I could tell right away that he wanted to be a part of the success at Oyler.

We continued our tour of the school and talked in great detail about breaking the cycle of poverty. As we moved through the conversation and through the tour I could almost feel the question coming from him that I knew was going to change Oyler School forever. We went back to my office and within a few minutes the question came and I was READY!

Mr. Schiff asked me if there was one thing that Oyler needed more than anything else to help continue with the great success what would it be? I started my answer before he even got all of his question out.  I looked him right in the eyes, and told him we needed to capture the students from Lower Price Hill when they are infants and develop them as toddlers, preschool, and then seamlessly transition them into Kindergarten.  In short, I told him we needed them inside this facility 3-4 years before they hit a Kindergarten seat and while they were here we needed them involved in top quality early learning activities as part of their development.

Days after the tour, I was told that the Schiff Family would be donating funds to create the Robert and Adele Schiff Early Learning Center at Oyler School which would allow us to operate one of the most innovative early learning centers in the entire region.  Their impact has been tremendous and the partnership has been truly one of a kind. Children age 6 months to 4 years of age have access to top quality childcare giving them opportunities to prepare for Kindergarten.

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Craig Hockenberry grew up in Northeastern Ohio in the small town of Malvern. After graduating from high school in 1990, he was recruited to play football at the College of Mount St. Joseph. He was part of the school's first football team and played for legendary Coach, John Pont. After graduating from Mount St. Joseph in 1995 with an undergraduate degree in Elementary Education, Craig immediately began teaching at Roosevelt School in the Cincinnati Public School system. During his short time at Roosevelt, he attended night school at Xavier University, receiving a graduate degree in Educational Administration. He then enrolled at the University of Cincinnati where he began work on his Ph.D. in Urban Education.

After Roosevelt School closed in 1998, he was named Assistant Principal of Oyler School in Lower Price Hill. After two years, he was promoted to Principal. During his last 10 years at Oyler, the school transformed from a K-6 school to a full-service PreK-12 Community Learning Center. The school elevated from Academic Emergency to Academic Watch to Continuous Improvement and, most importantly, was graduating students from a community that once held the highest dropout rate in the City of Cincinnati. In 2009, Craig was named the Cincinnati Public School Administrator of the Year and received the James N. Jacobs Award for Outstanding Administration. Also in 2009, he was the recipient of the 2009 Dream Makers Award from the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative (CYC) for his school's work in building partnerships. Additionally, he was named Lower Price Hill Man-of-the-Year for his work in the community of Lower Price Hill and went on to later be named The King of Price Hill.

Craig lives in West Price Hill with his wife, Erin, and their three children: Vivian, Gino, & Rocco. His personal interests include traveling, volunteering, exercising, following college football, and, of course, spending every minute he can with his family. He was the President-elect of the Price Hill/Western Hills Kiwanis Club. He is a Leadership Cincinnati Alumnus Class #39, and a member of the Cincinnatus Association. He was a member of the Price Hill Civic Club, the East Price Hill Property Owners Association, Lower Price Hill Community Council, and served on the board of directors at Santa Maria Community Services, Price Hill Will, and the Queensgate Business Alliance. He currently is a member of the Western Hills Community Service Club, the Cleves-Three Rivers Kiwanis Club, and the Western Economic Council. In 2015, he was appointed to the advisory boards for Mount St. Joseph University and Xavier University and recently began a member of the Cincinnati Rotary Club.

On Saturday, May 11, 2013, Craig received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the College of Mount St. Joseph and delivered the 2013 commencement address.

His 15 years of work and dedication at Oyler School was nationally recognized for an entire year on Marketplace/National Public Radio (NPR) in a series titled "One School, One Year..." Craig has had the opportunities to speak across the nation about leadership, education, and community leader centers.

After 19 years working in Cincinnati Public Schools, Craig was named the Superintendent of Manchester Local Schools in Adams County. Adams County is the 2nd poorest county in the State of Ohio and one of Ohio's most rural school districts. After 2 years, Craig returned to Hamilton County and was named Superintendent of The Three Rivers Local School District.

When serving as the District's Superintendent, Mr. Hockenberry continues to ensure student achievement. In 2016, Three Rivers Local School District received the Momentum Award under his leadership. This award recognizes schools that have received A's on every value-added measure included on the State Report Card. Three Rivers was one of only five districts to be awarded in 2016. Mr. Hockenberry also led the administrative team to identify the District's first ever Core Values as well as an extensive process to develop the district's first strategic plan.

Mr. Hockenberry led the district to a finalized agreement with Miami Township, the YMCA, and the Cincinnati Library System to develop a 14 million dollar Aquatic Center and recreation complex on the Three Rivers Campus. Under his leadership at Three Rivers he developed the Taylor High School Career Academies which included partnerships with Cincinnati State (Aviation), the University of Cincinnati (Informational Technology), and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). He secured over one million dollars in scholarships for those who wanted to pursue careers in the trades after graduation.

Mr. Hockenberry also serves as a guest lecture at several colleges and universities in Cincinnati including Mount St. Joseph University, University of Cincinnati, and Xavier University.

Mr. Hockenberry enjoys giving back and volunteers weekly at Matthew 25: Ministries, Crayons to Computers, The Freestore Foodbank, St. Francis Seraph, and Seton High School.

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Craig Hockenberry, a nationally recognized leader in K-12 education will visit Mayville State University Monday, Oct. 17 and Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Hockenberry is the former principal at Oyler School in Lower Price Hill of Cincinnati (Ohio) Public Schools. He led a transformation of the school and the neighborhood. He left Oyler School in 2013 to become superintendent at Manchester (Ohio) Local Schools. The district includes Manchester High School and Manchester Elementary.

The story of Principal Craig Hockenberry's mission to transform Oyler School, located in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Cincinnati, to a "community learning center" that provides services for the entire neighborhood is the subject of a film. "OYLER: One School, One Year" is a documentary film by Amy Scott that shows day-to-day activities at Oyler School during the 2012-2013 school year.

A screening of the film is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 17 at 6 p.m. in Mayville State's Classroom Building Auditorium. The public is invited to attend. After the screening, Craig Hockenberry will host an open discussion and question and answer forum.

Before 2006, very few kids from Lower Price Hill finished high school, much less went to college. The neighborhood is Urban Appalachian - an insular community with roots in the coal mining towns of Kentucky and West Virginia. The local Oyler School only offered classes through eighth grade. After that, rather than ride the bus out of the neighborhood for high school, most kids dropped out.

Under long-time Principal Craig Hockenberry's leadership, Oyler School was dramatically transformed and now serves kids from preschool through twelfth grade. Oyler is open year-round, from early morning until late at night. The school provides breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and sends hungry kids home with food on weekends. Students can walk down the hall to access a health clinic, vision center, and mental health counseling.

​The documentary highlights challenges and the slow transformation of the school and community in a troubled neighborhood after its renovated, permanent building opened in 2012. Hockenberry is shown spending long hours in and out of the school, engaging the community and promoting improvements. "OYLER" takes viewers through a year at the school, focusing on Hockenberry's mission and on senior Raven Gribbins' quest to be the first in her troubled family to finish high school and go to college. When Hockenberry's job is threatened, it becomes clear it's a make-or-break year for both of them.

"There were no easy days in Lower Price Hill, but thanks to hardworking students, parents, staff, and the community of supporters, Oyler accomplished things many would have believed impossible," Hockenberry said in a letter to Oyler School staff and supporters announcing his decision to become superintendent at Manchester in 2013.

During his tenure at Oyler School, which began in 2001, Hockenberry forged more than 130 public and private partnerships to provide services that benefitted the Price Hill community inside and outside of Oyler.

Hockenberry will spend the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 18 conducting a workshop for Mayville State University students and faculty, along with area public school teachers. The workshop will cover the topic of schools and poverty and the reality of K-12 educators in the United States.

The screening of "OYLER: One School, One Year" and the appearance of Craig Hockenberry at Mayville State University is sponsored by Mayville State University's Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Byrnes-Quanbeck Library, Mayville Area Teacher Center, and the MSU Division of Education.

For more information, contact Donalee Strand at donalee.strand@mayvillestate.edu.

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Craig Hockenberry, a nationally recognized leader in K-12 education will visit Mayville State University Monday, Oct. 17 and Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Hockenberry is the former principal at Oyler School in Lower Price Hill of Cincinnati (Ohio) Public Schools. He led a transformation of the school and the neighborhood.

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Craig Hockenberry is an educational professional who holds over two decades of experience, during which he has received a number of accolades, such as the CYC Dream Maker and Cincinnati Public School Principal of the Year awards. Since 2015, Craig Hockenberry has served as the Three Rivers School District's superintendent and overseen schools in Cleves, Addyston, North Bend, and Miami Township in Ohio.

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AWARD-WINNING EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR CRAIG HOCKENBERRY An alumnus of the College of Mount St. Joseph, Craig Hockenberry obtained a bachelor's degree in elementary education from the school in 1994 and subsequently enrolled at Xavier University, where he earned a master's degree in educational administration. He began his career as a

teacher at Roosevelt Elementary and, upon earning his master's degree, was hired by Cincinnati Public Schools to serve as principal at Oyler School. Craig Hockenberry worked 15 years in this role, during which time he oversaw the school's transition from academic emergency to continuous improvement status.

From there, Craig Hockenberry worked two years as superintendent of Manchester Local Schools. Since 2015, he has served in a similar capacity at Three Rivers Local School District, where he oversees a student population of around 2,400. Among other accomplishments at Three Rivers, he initiated career development for principals via the Rutherford Learning Group and facilitated a partnership with the University of Cincinnati IT.

Mr. Hockenberry has earned several awards and accolades during his career. He was given an honorary doctor of humane letters from College of Mount St. Joseph in 2014, and won the Cincinnati Business Courier Health Care Health Hero Award in 2013. He was also named Cincinnati Public School Principal of the Year in 2010.

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AWARD-WINNING EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR CRAIG HOCKENBERRY An alumnus of the College of Mount St. Joseph, Craig Hockenberry obtained a bachelor's degree in elementary education from the school in 1994 and subsequently enrolled at Xavier University, where he earned a master's degree in educational administration. He began his career as a

teacher at Roosevelt Elementary and, upon earning his master's degree, was hired by Cincinnati Public Schools to serve as principal at Oyler School. Craig Hockenberry worked 15 years in this role, during which time he oversaw the school's transition from academic emergency to continuous improvement status.

From there, Craig Hockenberry worked two years as superintendent of Manchester Local Schools. Since 2015, he has served in a similar capacity at Three Rivers Local School District, where he oversees a student population of around 2,400. Among other accomplishments at Three Rivers, he initiated career development for principals via the Rutherford Learning Group and facilitated a partnership with the University of Cincinnati IT.

Mr. Hockenberry has earned several awards and accolades during his career. He was given an honorary doctor of humane letters from College of Mount St. Joseph in 2014, and won the Cincinnati Business Courier Health Care Health Hero Award in 2013. He was also named Cincinnati Public School Principal of the Year in 2010.

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Craig Hockenberry is an educational professional who holds over two decades of experience, during which he has received a number of accolades, such as the CYC Dream Maker and Cincinnati Public School Principal of the Year awards. Since 2015, Craig Hockenberry has served as the Three Rivers School District's superintendent and overseen schools in Cleves, Addyston, North Bend, and Miami Township in Ohio.

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Craig Hockenberry Finding Our Values

Craig Hockenberry: Identifies Core Values

By Craig Hockenberry

The Three Rivers School District is a unique animal. It sprawls through the hilly southwestern Ohio terrain along the Ohio River. Parts of it feel rural, and yet a significant number of the residents of this area depend on urban Cincinnati for their income … and their education.

Most school districts are housed entirely in one municipality. However, the Three Rivers District, despite not being much larger than many similar districts, includes four different municipalities with their own elected leadership.

The villages of Addyston, Cleves, and North Bend each have their own council and mayor. And Miami Township, which encompasses those three villages, has a Board of Trustees.

This means that responsible decision-making in the school district necessarily involved a gauntlet of officials and official bodies. In order to create a district that was responsive to the needs of the community, an effort had to be made to identify common values and concerns.

Naming our core values would help focus a district that could otherwise be torn by competing interests and ambitions.

Why identify core values?

If you have worked for a corporation, attended a large church, or assisted with a nonprofit, you have likely encountered core values. You have likely also come across the group’s mission and vision statements.

It would be easy to dismiss these ubiquitous statements as unnecessary timewasters - corporate exercises that are meaningless to people doing the real work of the organization.

But the opposite is true.

The reality is that core values are a valuable investment of time and energy. When created with authenticity and implemented with integrity, these statements help every individual confidently represent the whole group in every situation.

They align custodians and executives, front line experts with behind-the-scenes professionals, and help create a cohesive unit.

This doesn’t mean everyone is hugging each other and singing “Kumbaya.” It means that when there is a conflict or a concern that falls outside the policy and process manuals, everyone has the same guidelines for how to move forward without waiting for an answer from a principal or a superintendent.

And in the business of education, where the experts are on the front lines working with kids in classrooms every day, getting rid of timewasters and obstacles is a crucial part of a leader’s work.

That doesn’t mean work can’t happen without core values and mission and vision statements. It can. But conflict resolution then falls more heavily on elected or hired leadership, and might not always represent the values of the whole group.

Filling the gap

When I arrived at Three Rivers, there were no identified core values. My predecessor was a beloved and effective administrator, and in a small rural district like this one, significant issues pop up less frequently than in larger and more diverse districts.

Choosing to take these steps to identify our values was not a way to say previous leaders had been less effective. But what it did do was give me a chance to learn from the community that was a neighbor to my own community, but was very different. I lived in Price Hill, on the west side of Cincinnati, just a few minutes’ drive from Three Rivers. But my urban neighborhood and this rural township were very different from each other.

This process also gave members of the community a chance to talk with each other and identify common strengths and beliefs. I had been warmly welcomed into a school district that was successful on the state report card, but that was losing a battle to keep some of their children in their own district.

Being so close to the urban core of Cincinnati meant that some families, especially Catholic families and those families that could afford it, sent their children to Catholic high schools like Elder and Seton.

I felt that one of my responsibilities was to build a school system that tempted more of those families to make the shorter drive to Taylor High School rather than the longer, and more expensive, trip to LaSalle.

I knew that if we came together as a community to talk about our values, we could build a bridge. And I believed that if we set appropriately ambitious and inclusive goals, we could create an even stronger school district. One that met the needs of the entire community.

So I started the process to identify our core values, as detailed over several following posts.

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Three Rivers Local School District Superintendent Craig Hockenberry

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The recipient of a bachelor's degree in elementary education from the College of Mount St. Joseph, as well as a master's degree in educational administration from

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AWARD-WINNING EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR CRAIG HOCKENBERRY An alumnus of the College of Mount St. Joseph, Craig Hockenberry obtained a bachelor's degree in elementary education from the school in 1994 and subsequently enrolled at Xavier University, where he earned a master's degree in educational administration. He began his career as a

teacher at Roosevelt Elementary and, upon earning his master's degree, was hired by Cincinnati Public Schools to serve as principal at Oyler School. Craig Hockenberry worked 15 years in this role, during which time he oversaw the school's transition from academic emergency to continuous improvement status.

From there, Craig Hockenberry worked two years as superintendent of Manchester Local Schools. Since 2015, he has served in a similar capacity at Three Rivers Local School District, where he oversees a student population of around 2,400. Among other accomplishments at Three Rivers, he initiated career development for principals via the Rutherford Learning Group and facilitated a partnership with the University of Cincinnati IT.

Mr. Hockenberry has earned several awards and accolades during his career. He was given an honorary doctor of humane letters from College of Mount St. Joseph in 2014, and won the Cincinnati Business Courier Health Care Health Hero Award in 2013. He was also named Cincinnati Public School Principal of the Year in 2010.

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Craig Hockenberry - Crunchbase Person Profile

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AWARD-WINNING EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR CRAIG HOCKENBERRY An alumnus of the College of Mount St. Joseph, Craig Hockenberry obtained a bachelor's degree in elementary education from the school in 1994 and subsequently enrolled at Xavier University, where he earned a master's degree in educational administration.

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CINCINNATI OHIO HOCKENBERRY

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CINCINNATI SUPERINTENDENT

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THREE RIVERS-OYLER-MANCHESTER

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CRAIG HOCKENBERRY THREE RIVERS

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2020.12.31.3  Craig Hockenberry Finding Our Values

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SUPERINTENDENT THREE RIVERS

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2020.12.31.2  Craig Hockenberry Finding Our Values

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2020.12.31.1  Craig Hockenberry Finding Our Values

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2020.11.14.4 CH Building Alliances to Deliver Remarkable Results

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2020.11.14.3 CH A Leader Attempts the Impossible (725 words)

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FEEDBACK

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2020.11.14.2 CH A Leader is Open to Surprising Feedback (650 words)

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2020.11.14.1 CH A Superintendent Listens to the Community (850 words)

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CRAIG HOCKENBERRY THREE RIVERS, MANCHESTER, OYLER 

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Live from Leadership ONE: Superintendent Craig Hockenberry

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Live from Leadership ONE: Superintendent Craig Hockenberry

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Craig Hockenberry is an educational professional who holds over two decades of experience, during which he has received a number of accolades, such as the CYC Dream Maker and Cincinnati Public School Principal of the Year awards. Since 2015, Craig Hockenberry has served as the Three Rivers School District's superintendent and overseen schools in Cleves, Addyston, North Bend, and Miami Township in Ohio.