Pottsgrove High School.
LOWER POTTSGROVE PA – Students and parents alike will see a variety of new teachers’ and helpers’ faces Aug. 31 (2009; Monday) as they return to classrooms in the Pottsgrove School District‘s three elementary schools, and its high school.
The district Board of School Directors approved more than 40 personnel changes as part of its agenda during a meeting last week (Aug. 11, 2009) in the administrative offices on Kauffman Road. Board members authorized district hirings at:
Lower Pottsgrove Elementary
- Nicole Thren, as a long-term substitute certified in health and physical education
- Aileen Burke, as an intervention tutor
- Judy Miller, as an intervention tutor
- Barbara Tyson, as an intervention tutor
- Stacy Fiore, as an intervention tutor
- Brian Artim, as a duty aide
Ringing Rocks Elementary
- Teri Widmann, as a library assistant
- Cynthia Fuess, as a student assistant
- Candice Brown, as a student assistant
- Theresa Urban,as a student assistant
- Susan Wolbert, as an intervention tutor
- Tamara Claypoole, as an intervention tutor
- Kari Klaus, as an intervention tutor
- Janet Lindley, as an intervention tutor
West Pottsgrove Elementary
- Margaret Tucker, as an intervention tutor
- Tracy Dise, as an intervention tutor
- Mary Saverese, as an intervention tutor
Pottsgrove High
- Jeffrey Madden, to teach social studies
- Meghan Funderberg, as a long-term substitute certified in special education
- Joseph Faust, as a long-term substitute certified in mathematics
- Joseph Skokowski, as a long-term substitute certified in social studies
- Sophie Alfonsi, to teach French
- Jeffrey Kershener, to teach special education
District-wide
- Elizabeth Rakoff, as district social worker
The board also approved the retirements of high school social studies teacher Bruce Hoffman, and high school guidance secretary Linda Stranick.
It also accepted the resignations of high school French teacher Susan Lobb; substitute teachers Nicole Steckiel, Megan Staudenmayer, and Ashley Kennedy; substitute nurse Kathleen Lorenzo; West Pottsgrove duty aides Judy Banks and Lisa Bush; high school percussion coach Paul Smith, middle school cafeteria aide Karen Lester-Smith, technology support specialist Jigar Patel, 7th grade football coach Tom Bailey, and district strings teacher George Frueh.
It appointed Karlee Young, James Strohecker, and Tammi Hartz as student teachers at West Pottsgrove. Hartz also will work in the middle school.
Related (to the Pottsgrove School Board’s Aug. 11 meeting):
- District’s Got Itself A New Gator
- Summer Reading? Some Complainin’: Bo-o-oring!
- Surprise Enrollment Spurs Demographic Interest
- District Assembles Ringing Rocks Planning Team
- School Board OKs Administrative Switch
- Lobbying Pays Off In Band Trailer Purchase
- Superintendent Confirms Plan To Switch Administrators
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