Many students in the Morgan Hill school district will return
Aug. 24 to find new school administrators on duty. Five are new to
the district; one is a district teacher who will move up to the
administrative level, and two of them are administrators from
district schools who have been moved to.
Many students in the Morgan Hill school district will return Aug. 24 to find new school administrators on duty.
Five are new to the district; one is a district teacher who will move up to the administrative level, and two of them are administrators from district schools who have been moved to.
Burnett, Los Paseos, Nordstrom and P.A. Walsh elementaries will have new principals this year. Los Paseos Principal Joanne Yinger retired at the end of the 2003-2004 school year, while Nordstrom Principal Nancy Milo left to take the position of principal at Silver Creek Elementary.
Burnett Principal Bob Davis is moving to Los Paseos, and P.A. Walsh Principal Irene Macias-Morriss will move to Central High as principal.
New Burnett Principal Barbara Neal received her education at Santa Clara University, a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s degree in educational administration. She also worked with the American Red Cross as a recruiter and director for 14 years.
P.A. Walsh will welcome Christina Frausto as principal. She attended National University and earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in educational administrations. She has served as an adult education teacher in Kansai, Japan, and with the East Side Union High School District. She was an assistant principal with the Alum Rock School District.
Kathy Yeager will lead Nordstrom in the coming school year. She attended San Jose State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in art and a master’s degree in teacher leadership. Her career has included stints as a UPS package driver, 12 years as a bilingual teacher, and time working in the Gilroy School District as a ELD/literacy coordinator, pottery manufacturer and reading facilitator.
MHSD secondary schools will also gain new administrators.
Nicholas Boden Jr., will take over at Live Oak High from former principal Nancy Serigstad, who is the new principal at Scotts Valley High. Boden received his education from UC Irvine, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in education. He has served as a high school English teacher, an assistant principal and a principal.
Joining Boden at Live Oak as an assistant principal is Irma Munoz. She comes to the district from a job as principal at Latino College Prep Academy in San Jose. She has a bilingual cross cultural credential and holds a bachelor’s degree in Chicano studies from UC Davis, as well as a master’s degree in secondary teaching from Stanford.
Britton Middle School will also welcome a new principal. Russom Mesfun comes to the school with a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Massachusetts in Boston, a master’s degree in educational leadership from CSU Hayward and is working on his Ph.D. He has served as an assistant principal at Skyline High School in Oakland.
There will also be changes in the District Office, according to Superintendent Carolyn McKennan.
Assistant Superintendent Denise Tate has announced she will be leaving at the end of August. Assistant Superintendent Claudette Beatty left when her contract expired at the end of June.
McKennan said she anticpates an announcement on District Office assignments will be made at Monday night’s special School Board meeting at 7 p.m. at the District Office.
School sites will reopen to the public during the week of August 9.
