Dakota Conference

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K-12 Board of Education

The purpose of the Dakota Conference K-12 Board of Education shall be:

  • To assume general responsibility for long-range planning of the K-12 conference educational system.
  • To conform to the North American Division Working Policy and the Mid-America Union Education Code. 
  • To administer the educational program of the conference pursuant to the constitution, bylaws and working policies of the Board of Education. 
  • To assume, as delegated by the Executive Committee, the responsibility for the employment, assignment, transfer, retirement, termination or dismissal of personnel in the 466 Dakota Conference schools in K-12.
  • To develop a plan and formulate procedures designed to evaluate school personnel regularly and routinely. 
  • To arbitrate major appeals and grievances. 
  • To receive and consider applications from schools desiring to teach secondary subjects. 
  • To receive and consider applications from churches desiring to open a church school. 
  • To administer an annual budget for schools K-12, as voted by the Executive Committee.
  • To apply salary rates for all educational personnel within the wage scale policy of the Mid-America Union Conference.
  • To approve annual school calendars meeting State and Union Conference Board of Education requirements. 
  • To evaluate facility needs in terms of pupil population projections and to develop an overall long-range plan for erecting new facilities, renovating and/or remodeling existing schools.
  • To evaluate recommendations of the Dakota Conference superintendent of schools regarding new schools and/or consolidation of existing schools. 
  • To appoint subcommittees (standing or ad-hoc) as needed. 

 

Above taken from the Constitution & Bylaws of the Dakota Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.

Dakota K-12 Board of Education Members

*Member because of position

 

Mark Weir, chair*

President

 

Mark Piotrowski*

Vice President of Administration

 

Mark Seibold*

Vice President of Finance

 

 

Lloyd Binder

Bowdle Adventist Church, SD
Aberdeen Region

 

Barb Christensen

Sioux Falls Adventist Church, SD
Sioux Falls Region

 

Erik Christenson

Manfred Adventist Church, ND
Jamestown Region

 

 

Breann Coughlin

Williston Adventist Church, ND
Dickinson Region

 

Kris de Bruin

Mandan Adventist Church, ND
Bismarck Region

 

Ben Dossenko

Dakota Adventist Academy Church, ND
Bismarck Region

 

 

Leanne Erickson

Grand Forks Adventist Church, ND
Fargo Region

 

Marla Hawronsky

Rapid City Adventist Church, SD
Rapid City Region

​Christina Masich

Jamestown Adventist Church, ND
Jamestown Region

 

​MAUC Representative*

Lincoln, NE
Mid-America Union Conference

 

Mitch Merkel

Ellendale Adventist Company, ND
Aberdeen Region

 

MiKaela Miller

Grand Forks Adventist Church, ND
Fargo Region

 

 

Sathiya Raman*


DAA Principal

 

George Shaver

Aberdeen Adventist Church, SD
Aberdeen Region

 

Kelli Wasemiller*

Rapid City Adventist Church, SD
Elementary Education Superintendent

 

 

Robin Weisz

Goodrich Adventist Church, ND
Bismarck Region

 

Janna Wright

Invitation Hill Adventist Church, ND
Dickinson Region

 

 

 

 

Dakota K-12 Board of Education Invitees

**Invitee

 

Eric Garrett**

Dakota Adventist Academy Church, ND
DAA Plant Services Director

 

 

Lynette Miller**

Mandan Adventist Church, ND
DAA Development Director

 

Darla Reed**

Dakota Adventist Academy Church, ND
DAA Recruitment Director

 


** Please note, all Dakota Conference department directors are invitees to board meetings.