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Is your child getting a new principal next year? Check the list to find out - ThePeterboroughExaminer.com

The Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board has released its list of principal and vice principal appointments.
Check to see if your kids’ school will have new leaders in the fall.
 
Elementary Principals

Drew Beaton: Queen Elizabeth PS

Bryan Beers: The Pines Sr. PS

Peter Cain: Percy Centennial PS

Tanya Doyle: Harold Longworth PS

Rachelle Duffus: Buckhorn PS

Stephen Fisher: Dr. Ross Tilley PS
 
Angela Hickey-Gillespie: Waverley PS

Jennifer Johnston: North Cavan PS

Peter Knierim: Lakefield DPS

Tyler Kolodzinski: Duke of Cambridge PS

Setina MacLean: Orono PS

Greg Sumi: Grafton PS

Lyn Westlake: Colborne PS

Kerry Zinkiewich: Highland Heights PS

Secondary Principals

Jennifer Knox: Northumberland/Clarington CIS

Skye Jordan: Kenner CVI

Peggy (Margaret) Perkins: Clarington CSS

Jeff Watt: Courtice SS

Elementary Vice-Principals
 
Amy Addison: Westmount PS

Matt Avery: Dr. G.J. McGillivray PS

Melissa Casselman: Kaawaate East City PS

Nick Cloutier: Duke of Cambridge PS

Carol Culp: James Strath PS

Carrie Davidson: Courtice Int

Natalie Dummitt: Prince of Wales PS

Dawn Graham: Queen Mary PS

Andrew Jaglall: Clarington Central Int.

Brikena Pazari: Edmison Heights PS

Sherry Richer: Harold Longworth PS

Helen Thompson: Duke of Cambridge PS

Secondary Vice-principals

Roberta Brown: Bowmanville HS

Debbie Callahan: Kenner CVI

Christina Carey-Herbert: Cobourg CI

Karen Cummings: Thomas A. Stewart SS

Darlene Davison: East Northumberland SS

Kinsley Hurlington: Crestwood SS

Michelle Jones: Thomas A. Stewart SS

Jeff St.Thomas: Campbellford DHS

System Principals

Tracy McCarthy: System Principal: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Jennifer McIlmoyle-Parsons: Teaching and Learning, Elementary

Joanne Shuttleworth: Special Education

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School District 27 announces four principal appointments – Williams Lake Tribune - Williams Lake Tribune

School District 27 superintendent Chris van der Mark announced four administrative appointments for the Cariboo Chilcotin on Wednesday, May 26.

“I hope you will all join me in congratulating these individuals on their appointments and welcoming them into their new roles where we wish them much success,” van der Mark said.

Grant Gustafson will be the district principal Indigenous education, Elaine Colgate wil be the principal of Mile 108 Elementary, Kimberly Ikebuchi will be principal of Tatla Lake Elementary Junior Secondary and Shawn Nelson will be the principal of Lac La Hache Elementary.

Presently Gustafson is the vice-principal at Lake City Secondary Williams Lake Campus. Previously he was also principal at 150 Mile, Nesika Elementary and Horsefly Elementary Secondary.

Colgate has been principal at Cherry Hill Elementary in Surrey and prior to that served as principal of Sxoxomic Elementary in Esket (Alkali Lake).

Nelson has been serving as vice-principal at 100 Mile House Elementary since 2016. Prior to that he was principal at Forest Grove Elementary, and before that he taught at Buffalo Creek and 100 Mile House Elementary.

Ikebuchi as been the learning support teacher at Anahim Lake, Tatla Lake and Alexis Creek Elementary Junior Secondary schools since 2020. Prior to that she worked as intermediate classroom support teacher for the Kelowna Christian School from 2009.

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UGDSB announces principal and vice-principal transfers and appointments - GuelphToday

NEWS RELEASE
UPPER GRAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
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The following Elementary Principal and Vice-Principal transfers and appointments are effective Sept. 1, 2021.

Principal Transfers:

• Marina Harrison, from Erin PS to Arbour Vista PS
• Paul Huddleston, from Princess Elizabeth PS to Erin PS
• Tammy Reiner, from Drayton Heights PS to Victoria Cross PS
• Shannon Spike, from Alma PS to Drayton Heights PS
• Kirk Runciman, from Arbour Vista PS to Paisley Road PS
• Lindsey Tremblay, from Ross R. MacKay PS to Willow Road PS
• Steve Viveiros, from Willow Road PS to Sir Isaac Brock PS
• Tara Regota, from Peel DSB to Princess Elizabeth PS

Principal Appointments:

• Jason Boyce, from VP Minto-Clifford PS to Principal Alma PS
• Shawn Henderson, from VP Primrose ES to Principal Ross R. MacKay PS
• Patricia Josephson, from VP Parkinson Centennial PS to Principal Parkinson Centennial PS
• Sarah Schoettler, from VP Jean Little PS to Principal John Black PS

Vice-Principal Transfers:

• Jen Apgar, from Temporary VP Elementary Remote School to VP Jean Little PS
• Nia Pommier, from Temporary VP Elementary Remote School to Temporary VP Spencer Avenue ES
• Rylan Pranger, from Temporary VP Westwood PS to VP Westwood PS
• Sarah Sinkovits, from Temporary VP Rickson Ridge PS to VP Rickson Ridge PS
• Jaime Wouters, from Temporary VP Centennial Hylands ES to VP Centennial Hylands ES

Vice-Principal Appointments:

• Athena Flak, from private sector (Learnstyle) to VP Parkinson Centennial PS
• Ashley Hopkins, from teacher Peel DSB to VP Primrose ES
• Tracy Phillips, from teacher Durham DSB to VP Minto-Clifford PS

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New Ludlow Principal Meets Board, Former Principal Outlines Plans for Elevated Role - The River City News

The Ludlow board of education met with its new principal of Mary A. Goetz Elementary and learned about plans from that school's former principal who has been elevated to a new position.

Tonya Brummer was formally introduced to the board on Thursday. She was announced as the new principal earlier this month.

Brummer will return to Ludlow where she began her teaching career from 2000 to 2009. She is currently assistant principal at Beechwood Elementary in Ft. Mitchell and assumes her new duties in Ludlow in July.

"As principal of Mary A. Goetz Elementary School, my mission will be to partner with the entire school community to grow the creative minds and academic achievements of our students and staff to their full potential, while sustaining present levels of success," said Brummer. "I am excited to be part of the community."

Brummer replaces Jason Steffen who will now serve as director of teaching and learning for the district, a new position created to concentrate on helping students catch up academically after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Steffen unveiled his plans for the role last week.

He envisions positions of interventionist instructor, parent communication advocate, and student content interventionist, and would like to see an incentive offered to teachers who participate in a student mentoring program and those who participate in the after-school program known as Shine.

The mentoring program would involve checking on students' progress in school, their mental states, and to find where they may be having problems. Parents would also be checked in with.

The idea would be to keep a mentor's student group limited to five or six.

Steffen said he that will continue to refine the plan and after he formally assumes his new job he will post the plan online.  

In other business, the board voted 4-1 against participating in the new option provided though legislation adopted by the General Assembly to allow a student to return to school for an additional year due to the impact of the pandemic.

Superintendent Michael Borchers explained that only one student in Ludlow applied to return for an additional year, motivated by sports reasons.

The superintendent said that Ludlow was mostly able last fall to hold classes in person four days a week, and then after Christmas, in person five days a week.

Most sports teams, he said, played all their scheduled games.

Borchers also expressed concerns that a student could repeat the year only as far as the sports season lasts, and then walk away, and there would be nothing that the district could do.

-Patricia A. Scheyer, RCN contributor

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WSCUHSD board approves third vice principal, seals fewer layoffs - Sonoma West

The May 12 West Sonoma County Union High School District (WSCUHSD) board meeting unfurled with movement in addition the board’s direction to the superintendent to use the working name of West County High School for the future consolidated school.

With Board President Kellie Noe absent, the trustees approved a third vice principal for the future consolidated school, a bell schedule that allows students to take advanced electives at the El Molino campus and finalized fewer layoffs than originally issued.

El Molino math teacher becomes consolidated school’s third vice principal

A trio of vice principals will aid current Analy Principal Shauna Ferdinandson in leading the consolidated high school to launch this fall, known as West County High School for now.

In Noe’s absence, the rest of the trustees voted to approve El Molino math teacher Rachel Lasek as the third vice principal. Analy Vice Principal Erin Elliot and El Molino Vice Principal Dani Barese have agreed to continue in their roles, the district’s human resources director Mia Del Prete said at the March 16 board meeting.

Lasek graduated from Analy as the daughter of a longtime Analy teacher and went on to teach at El Molino for 15 years.

Her contract starts on July 1 and runs for one year, “just like the rest of the administrators,” Del Prete said. She said Lasek will also receive a $1,000 stipend for her master’s degree, a car and cell phone allowance, health benefits and a life insurance policy.

Lasek’s contract will be placed on the district’s website following the board’s approval, the human resources director said.

Community member Heather Dale Best said that although she opposes consolidation and disagrees with most of the board’s decisions, she completely supports the selection of Lasek as a vice principal.

“I think that’s one tiny, tiny, tiny step that may, may, may possibly, possibly, possibly help this community, the El Molino community, move forward should we have to move forward with this scenario,” she said. “It’s not our choice, but Rachel Lasek is, much like some of our board members, she bleeds black and red and she is an amazing soul and she has done so much for our kids.”

SCOE calls for a third interim report to address budget concerns

In an unusual request, the Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) has directed the district to submit a third interim budget report due June 1, Superintendent Toni Beal said, to be presented at the board’s May 26 board meeting.

She read from a May 5 letter from SCOE, repeating “serious concerns about the district’s historical and ongoing deficit spending and the potential for masking the structural deficit with the influx of one-time state and federal dollars,” since an earlier April 15 letter.  

Among the concerns in the letter was that multi-year projections indicated an ending fund balance surplus starting in 2021 from one-time funds, Beal said.

“While this one-time increase in fund balance provides some relief to the general fund, the ongoing structural deficit spending must be addressed,” she read from the letter. The district and some community members have disputed in recent months whether incoming state and federal funds related to COVID-19 could go towards delaying consolidation.

SCOE’s letter dated Jan. 1 called for a board-approved fiscal recovery plan to confront deficit spending and uphold minimum reserve levels “in all years,” troubled by the deficit and “the deterioration of the district’s fund balance,” according to Beal. 

Most teacher layoffs averted

The district managed to avert most of its preliminary layoffs for teachers by the time the board voted to finalize certificated employee layoffs for the coming school year at the May 12 board meeting.

Now, the district is laying off one teacher, the human resources director told Sonoma West Times & News on May 24.

Originally, the board approved the full-time equivalent (FTE) of nine preliminary layoffs in March that, after some chose to retire, dropped to 5.6 FTE layoffs, Del Prete said. Seven teachers received notices in March because some received only partial layoffs, she confirmed May 24.

The district was able to keep five teachers, so when the board voted to finalize 1.6 FTE layoffs, two teachers remained to be issued final notices. Since then, one teacher was able to be partially brought back for next school year, leaving one FTE layoff to stand, according to Del Prete.

“Sadly, aye,” said Trustee Laurie Fadave and Vice President Jeanne Fernandes when the board had voted to seal then-1.6 FTE layoffs on May 12, in a resolution bound with reducing or cutting some certificated services for the coming school year.

Ringing in a new bell schedule

Analy Vice Principal Erin Elliott presented the proposed bell schedule for the next school year, structured to allow students to take advanced elective classes at the El Molino campus.

The main classes planned are advanced dance, advanced culinary, “AG Farm to Table,” viticulture and advanced workshop, using El Molino’s specialized facilities, per the presentation. 

The board approved the schedule that evolved over rounds of revision, developed by a committee with representatives of Analy, El Molino and the district.

Elliott said a number of “non-negotiables” guided their work: keeping an 8:30 a.m. start time, an advisory and tutorial period at least twice a week, covering at least 64,800 instructional minutes as the state requires, and last, access to specialized facilities on the El Molino campus for advanced electives.

On Mondays, students will have all seven periods, each about 50 minutes long, with brunch after the first period. Seventh period ends at 3:33 p.m., according to the schedule.

The rest of the week takes a block schedule that differs depending on whether the student is taking a specialized class at the Forestville campus. Classes are about 93 minutes each, Elliott said. 

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, students take their even-numbered periods, with brunch after the first class again, followed by an advisory or tutorial period for roughly 30 minutes. The schedules split after lunch, where some students may go straight to sixth period on campus and others would travel to the El Molino campus for specialized electives, Elliott explained.

“And we’re hoping that it would be about 30 minutes based on talking with the transportation department and talking with people who’ve made the drive,” she said.

After sixth period, those students would either be dismissed from class or travel back to the Sebastopol campus to then head home, Elliott said. The travel time means students who take classes in Forestville would get out of school later, ending sixth period alone at 3:08 p.m. while in Sebastopol, students would get out at 2:43 p.m.

Wednesdays and Fridays begin with a breakfast period at 8:00 a.m. before the first period starts at 8:30 a.m., instead of offering brunch, Elliott said. The schedule has students go to fifth period after lunch and then either stay on campus for seventh period or travel to Forestville.

Students there would travel back to Sebastopol or be dismissed from class from there at 4:03 p.m., while students who stayed in Sebastopol would end seventh period at 3:38 p.m.

The schedule did not factor in start times or end times for those who take zero and eighth periods, but Elliot said there are plans to make the information available soon.

Further, Elliott said the committee discussed needed adjustments to sports start times with athletic directors Mike Roan and Joe Ellwood, who she said already made some changes.

The superintendent said the district is in conversations with its current bus services, West County Transportation Agency, to shuttle students between the two campuses, costing $30,000 for the additional routes.

The buses would take some students home first and then the others back to the Sebastopol campus at the end of the day, she said.

Richelle Stoufer, bilingual paraeducator and committee member, thanked Elliott but said the committee didn’t have consistent El Molino representation in terms of meetings.

She also voiced concern about zero and eighth periods and potential overlapping with sports and staff meetings in the schedule.

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