Dan Goldman

Dan Goldman serves the educational communities across Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook and Washington counties in Northwest Oregon as the Superintendent of the Northwest Regional Education Service District (NWRESD).

Before joining NWRESD in July 2019, he was the Superintendent of the Hood River County School District (HRCSD), leading significant improvements in student achievement, educational equity, fiscal performance, and community engagement. A below average school district prior to his arrival, HRCSD was ranked as one of Oregon's top 10 school districts by the Portland Business Journal in 2018.

Before leading in superintendent roles, Mr. Goldman served as the Director of Curriculum and Instruction and Elementary Programs in the Tigard-Tualatin School District where he oversaw all K-12 curriculum, instruction, assessment, instructional technology, and school improvement efforts.

Superintendent Goldman has been a professional educator since 1994. He began his career as a special education teacher working with students with severe behavioral and emotional disabilities in residential settings in Washington and Oregon. Before beginning his work in education administration, he served in Portland Public Schools as an elementary principal, special education teacher and school psychologist at the elementary, middle and high school levels.

Superintendent Goldman holds a Master of Science degree with Oregon endorsements in educational leadership, administration and school psychology. He has presented extensively at the statewide and national levels on Response to Intervention (RTI), literacy development, formative assessment, leadership for equity, Positive Behavioral Supports (PBIS), program evaluation, and action research. He co-authored Oregon's Technical Assistance Guide to Response to Intervention Programming and was awarded the "PBIS Champions Award" by the Northwest PBIS Association in 2015. Dan is a longstanding Board Member for the I Have a Dream Foundation (Greater Than) and the Hood River County Education Foundation. He chairs the boards for the Northwest Early Learning Hub and Northwest Promise.

Dan moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1991 from the New York City area and enjoys the outdoors and concert-going with his wife, Nicole, and their two school-aged daughters.