Students, teachers and staff at Britton Middle School and Live
Oak High School will be welcoming new principals when school opens
in August as current Britton Principal Jim McDonald retires and
current Live Oak Principal Nancy Serigstad accepts the top job at
Scotts Valley High.
Students, teachers and staff at Britton Middle School and Live Oak High School will be welcoming new principals when school opens in August as current Britton Principal Jim McDonald retires and current Live Oak Principal Nancy Serigstad accepts the top job at Scotts Valley High.
Nicholas Boden from Riverside has been named Live Oak principal, and Russom Mesfun will take over as principal at Britton Middle.
No decision has been made on the replacement for Nancy Milo, who leaves Nordstrom Elementary for Silver Oak Elementary in the Silver Creek area of south San Jose.
Boden comes to Live Oak from Arlington High School in Southern California where he has been the principal since December 2000.
Serigstad said her initial impression of Boden was that he was a people person. “… he remembered the names of the teachers who had interviewed him when we saw them, and he remembered certain questions they had asked him. He seemed to focus on the people.”
Boden will officially come on board July 1, although he will participate in the training for administrators taking place June 15 that was required by the settlement of the Flores sexual harassment lawsuit.
Boden, will participate in the hiring of assistant principals to replace Live Oak Assistant Principals Aida Fraser-Hammer and Debbie Padilla.
Padilla has been hired as San Benito High School principal.
Mesfun also will come on board July 1. He comes to Britton from Skyline High in Oakland, where he is an assistant principal. He has 12 years of teaching experience, including middle school experience.
According to Superintendent Carolyn McKennan, Mesfun is a “student-centered leader.”
