G. Tryon and Associates is a professional firm providing general consulting services to K-12 school districts throughout the state. The firm specializes in finding excellence in educational leadership--including superintendents, central office and building level administrators. Each search is custom-designed to meet the needs of the school district.

The president and founder of G. Tryon and Associates is Dr. Gaylord Tryon. Dr. Tryon brings over 45 years experience in K-12 education to this search process. This experience
includes classroom teaching at the elementary, middle, and high school levels; school administration; adjunct teaching at the university level; 29 years as executive director of the School Administrators of Iowa (a statewide organization representing 2000 superintendents, building principals, central office administrators, and area education agency administrators); and several years providing general consulting services to local school boards.

G. Tryon and Associates is a student-centered, client-focused and results-oriented search firm. They will work closely with the Board of Education, students, staff, parents, and community to find the best educational leader possible. The search will be conducted in a thorough and professional manner and with the utmost integrity and confidentiality. Dr. Gaylord Tryon, the president of the firm, will be involved with every aspect of the search process. Mr. Stan Slessor, former superintendent at Waverly-Shell Rock and Red Wing, Minnesota, Dr. Randy Braden, former superintendent at Vinton-Shellsburg, and Dr. Randy Flack, recently retired superintendent at Knoxville, will be extensively involved in the search as well.

The search team is very familiar with all aspects of school administration. Further, we have first-hand knowledge and experience in working with most Iowa school administrators. We are well known and have many excellent contacts with educational leaders from other states and will actively recruit applicants from outside of Iowa. G. Tryon and Associates guarantees its work. If, within the first two years of employment, the board terminates or does not renew the superintendent’s contract due to job related performance, G. Tryon and Associates will conduct a second search for expenses only--no consulting fee assessed to the school district.

G. Tryon and Associates is also familiar with the Montezuma School District as it conducted the search for the current Montezuma Schools superintendent in 2007.

There is a special school board meeting scheduled for Wednesday January 25 at 6:30pm in the elementary library with G. Tryon and Associates to work out details and a specific timeline to the process. It is anticipated a new superintendent will be selected and named by March 31 with duties to begin July 1, 2017.