Principal

Smith Academy principal leaving for bigger school

Posted on Thursday, November 1st, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Greta Jochem, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 10/31/2018
Link: Complete Article

HATFIELD – Andrew Berrios is leaving his position as principal of Smith Academy for a job as a middle school principal in Connecticut. “There’s nothing negative to say about here and why I’m leaving,” Berrios said of the decision. “It’s strictly for growth.” With over a thousand students, John F. Kennedy Middle School in Enfield, Connecticut is much larger than Smith… [Read More]

New Whately Elementary principal greets kids for first day of school

Posted on Thursday, August 30th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Domenic Poli, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 8/30/2018
Link: Complete Article

WHATELY — Instead of champagne and a Ryan Seacrest broadcast, students and guardians rang in a new year at Whately Elementary School with Hoodsie ice cream cups and flute music on Wednesday. Today is the first day of the school’s 2018-19 academic calendar, but new Principal Kristina Kirton scheduled a New Year’s Eve ice cream social a day… [Read More]

New superintendent, elementary school principal for Hampshire Regional School District

Posted on Monday, August 27th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Luis Feldman, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Date: 8/22/2018
Link: Complete Article

Like an orchestra conductor, Hampshire Regional School District’s new Superintendent Aaron Osborne has the task of getting all the different instruments of his ensemble to play together in concert. To do that, Osborne said he wants to get School Committee members and town officials from the six towns in the district in open communication so… [Read More]

Frontier Regional, Whately Elementary start school year with new leaders

Posted on Monday, August 27th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Fran Ryan, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 8/24/2018
Link: Complete Article

SOUTH DEERFIELD — New leadership in several positions throughout the Frontier Regional Union 38 School District marks the biggest change for the coming school year. Former Frontier Regional High School principal Darius Modestow will now serve as the district’s new interim school superintendent. Modestow brings 15 years of administrative experience and 10 years experience as… [Read More]

New Middle School principal has top traits requested by parents

Posted on Monday, August 27th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Max Marcus, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 8/22/2018
Link: Complete Article

GREENFIELD — Karen S. Cousland is the new principal of Greenfield Middle School and the Math and Science Academy. Her first day was Wednesday. “I am so excited to be joining a talented team of teachers and to meet the active parent community at Greenfield Middle School and the Math and Science Academy,” Cousland said…. [Read More]

Whately Elementary selects Kristina Kirton as new principal

Posted on Wednesday, July 11th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Joshua Solomon, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 7/10/2018
Link: Complete Article

WHATELY — After an extensive search process including a review of more than 30 applicants, Whately Elementary School now has a new principal. Kristina Kirton, a former first-grade teacher of 20 years, comes from the Holyoke Public Schools, where she most recently served as an administrator developing curriculum. Members of the search committee described her… [Read More]

Greenfield Middle School Principal Gary Tashjian retires

Posted on Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Joshua Solomon, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 6/15/2018
Link: Complete Article

GREENFIELD — With a granddaughter now in the picture and a desire to pursue other passions, Gary Tashjian has decided to move on from Greenfield Middle School after 32 years. Tashjian, who turns 58 this week, reflected on his tenure at the middle school, having spent the first 16 years as a science teacher before… [Read More]

Gail Healy retires after 39 years in Franklin County

Posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Max Marcus, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 4/17/2018
Link: Complete Article

NORTHFIELD — Gail Healy will be leaving her job as assistant superintendent of Pioneer Valley Regional School District on Sept. 7, ending a 39-year education career in Franklin County that she described as “morally, ethically and, I think, educationally pretty successful.” Healy has been assistant superintendent for Pioneer since 2008. Her longest tenure, however, was… [Read More]

Belchertown administrator to become South Hadley middle school principal

Posted on Wednesday, October 18th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Jim Russell, Masslive
Date: 10/17/2017
Link: Complete Article

SOUTH HADLEY — The superintendent of schools has chosen Douglas Daponde, assistant principal at Belchertown High School, to be principal at Michael E. Smith Middle School effective Nov. 6. Daponde succeeds Paul Plummer, whose death earlier this year created the vacancy. Daponde previously was Belchertown’s dean of students and athletic director and an assistant principal… [Read More]

Interim GHS principal steps into permanent post

Posted on Thursday, September 21st, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Joshua Solomon, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 9/20/2017
Link: Complete Article

GREENFIELD — As she left college, Karin Patenaude wondered what to do with an English degree. She would try the field of law, working as a paralegal. Unfulfilled, she went back to school to get a degree so that she could become a teacher. Teaching high school English in Palmer, she developed a passion for… [Read More]