Community Cafe Bainbridge

In this 23-minute podcast, our new Superintendent of the Bainbridge Island School District, Peter Bang-Knudsen, responds to questions about his personal background -- such as his discovery of his passion for helping kids -- and his forwarding-looking goals and vision for our public schools, teachers and students. Our elected School Board conducted a national search and chose Peter, who graduated from Bainbridge High School, has children in our schools, knows our community well, and has been serving as Assistant Superintendent since 2010. He was hired by our much-admired outgoing Superintendent Faith Chapel, who found Peter in a leadership role in the Bellevue school district. Faith is retiring after a long career in education and about 8 years service to BISD as superintendent. Peter officially takes on his new role on July 1st. In this conversation recorded on June 23rd, he responds to questions about: Experiences during this transition period How his interest in education arose Examples of early formative