Jason P. McCandless
Board Member
Jason has worked in public education since 1993: as an alternative education program director, English teacher, football and wrestling coach, department chairperson, assistant principal and principal. He has been a school superintendent in several Massachusetts school districts: Lee Public Schools, the Pittsfield Public Schools, and, now in the Mount Greylock Regional School District, in Williamstown, Mass. His career spans public school service in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Massachusetts.
A graduate of Grove City College with degrees in literature and communications, Jason earned his master's degree from the University of Virginia and earned his Ph.D in Educational Leadership at Boston College.
He serves on the board of Lee Bank, and on advisory committees for Barrington Stage Community and the Colonial Theatre Group. He is also a board member with United Cerebral Palsy of Western Massachusetts. He and his family are active members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Stockbridge, Mass.
Jason and his wife, Tamara, are the parents of three children, and they reside in Lee.