Alachua County General public Schools has named 10 new principals to new positions inside the district at a new board conference.
The district also appointed two new heads to departments in just the public college procedure, a single of whom was earlier named Florida’s Trainer of the Calendar year.
The new principals will all be in charge of colleges in time for the commence of the 2022-2023 school yr that will kick off in August.
Below are the district’s new principalsprinciples:
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Holly Burton, Alachua Elementary University
Burton will provide as the new principal of Alachua Elementary Faculty, situated at 13800 Northwest 152nd Place, right after formerly doing the job at Shell Elementary University. A extended-time educator inside the school district she taught for six years at Talbot Elementary Faculty and two a long time at Newberry Elementary. She later grew to become the assistant principal at Concealed Oak Elementary Faculty.
Ed Haukland, Shell Elementary Faculty
Haukland, the now-former assistant principal at Wile Elementary University, is having Burton’s location at Shell Elementary University, located at 21633 65th Ave. He worked as an Elementary College trainer in Palm Seashore County Educational institutions from 2003 to 2010. He remaining schooling for a temporary interval to do the job as a task supervisor and grant writer for a non-income organization in Melrose. He was brought back to the district to work as a teacher at Talbot and Meadowbrook Elementary universities. In 2013 Haukland turned dean of Hugh Springs Group University.
Heather Harbour, Terwilliger Elementary College
Harbour was lately appointed as the new principal of Terwilliger Elementary Faculty, at 3999 SW 122nd St. She was a previous first-quality instructor at Norton Elementary School for five decades just before moving to the district workplace as the supervisor of team improvement. In 2014, she grew to become the assistant principal at Substantial Springs Neighborhood University, just before getting to be principal of Alachua Elementary University in 2017.
John Environmentally friendly, principal of Lincoln Middle College
Inexperienced began functioning with Alachua County General public Faculties in 2007 as a family liaison expert with Head Begin. He then moved to Hawthorne Center/Superior School in which he was the dean, things to do director and classroom teacher.
From 2013 to 2021, Green experienced a host of roles, doing work as an assistant principal at Sidney Lanier School, Hawthorne Middle/Substantial, Buchholz Superior, Meadowbrook Elementary and Gainesville High schools.
On best of becoming the new principal of Lincoln Center School, at 1001 Southeast 12th St., he also serves as the district’s supervisor of Specific Assignments wherever he oversees instructional systems, which include charter and magnet applications.
Royce Kamman, principal of Hawthorne Large School
Kamman leaves at the rear of his principal placement at A. Quinn Jones Center. Kamman has been a instructor with the district considering that 1996, starting his perform as a social scientific tests teacher at Hawthorne Middle/Large College. He ongoing to train social reports at Eastside Significant College in 2002 and later transferred to Westwood Center University to educate physical training in 2004.
He also served as an assistant principal at Howard Bishop Middle College in 2006 and assistant principal at Hawthorne Middle/Significant Faculty in 2012.
Daniel Ferguson, principal of Gainesville Significant University
Ferguson leaves his position as principal of Hawthorne/Center Substantial Faculty and is relocating on to Gainesville Substantial Faculty. His very first teaching situation in the district was in 1999 at A. Quinn Jones Centre. He then served as an assistant principal at Buchholz Higher University in 2004 before going to Oakview Middle Faculty as an assistant principal. In 2011, he grew to become principal of Idylwild Elementary University. He ultimately went again to A. Quinn Jones in 2015 to provide as principal for 4 a long time.
Jesely Alvarez, Alachua eSchool
Alvarez was most just lately the principal for the new Terwilliger Elementary University. She received her start off in Alachua County General public Faculties as an assistant principal at Duval Early Learning Academy right before becoming an assistant principal of the older Terwilliger creating right before being promoted.
In advance of Alachua County, she was a instructor in a K-8 school in the Edmonds School District in Washington from 1998 by means of 2005. She also served as a curriculum coordinator for the American Cultural Trade in Seattle, Washington.
Involving 2005 and 2011, she served as a middle university assistant principal in two districts in Washington. And in 2011 grew to become the principal of an global elementary college in Seattle in advance of getting a principal in the Guadalupe Faculty district.
Bonnie Bing, A.Quinn Jones Heart
Bing moves from an assistant principal position to principal at A. Quinn Jones Middle, located at 1108 NW 7th Ave.
Prior to her time at A. Quinn as a teacher, she was an ESE paraprofessional at Alachua Elementary College. She was after
wards named Alachua’s Habits Source Trainer in 2008 prior to becoming the assistant principal. In 2019, she turned the assistant principal at Santa Fe Superior College.
Jacquette Rolle, K-12 advancement
Rolle commenced her instructing career in Alachua County Public Schools in 2002 at Duval Elementary School. She held many roles as a clinical instruction teacher, mentor, a Title 1 intervention teacher and studying coach.
Rolle moved on to get the job done as regional examining coordinator and college enhancement expert for the Workplace of Differentiated Accountability with the Florida Department of Instruction. She returned to the district in 2014 as the curriculum resource trainer at Williams Elementary College in advance of becoming the school’s assistant principal the adhering to yr. She also served as the principal of Metcalfe Elementary School in 2018.
She leaves guiding her job at the district office environment as the director of expert growth.
Diane Leinenbach, K-12 improvement
Leinenbach served as principal of Gainesville High College for the university 12 months 2021-2022.
She was formerly an athletic trainer in Marion County General public Faculties in 1999. She held various years in Marion County these kinds of as trainer, dean, assistant principal and district assistant principal. She also served as the principal of Oakcrest Elementary Faculty inside of the district.
In 2019, she was named the regional director of the Bureau of College Advancement at the Florida Division of Schooling. In that job, she furnished support to districts and faculties in the Southeast region to transform all over having difficulties schools.
The district’s new directors:
Dakeyan ‘Dre’ Graham, director of instructional fairness and outreach
Graham’s educating vocation commenced in 2009 at C. Leon King High University in Tampa, where by he was director of instrumental studies. He remained in that position until eventually 2020. He was a faculty member at both Hillsborough Neighborhood Faculty and the College of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee and a wonderful arts teacher with the Hillsborough County Clinic Homebound Method.
Graham was named Florida’s instructor of the yr in 2020.
From 2020 till 2022, he was the government director of the Workplace of Unbiased Schooling and Parental Alternative/College Improvement with the Florida Division of Schooling.
LaTroy Strappy, director of faculty preference
Strappy was the previous principal of Lincoln Middle School. He started his vocation at Alachua County General public Educational facilities at Howard Bishop Middle University as ESE teacher.
He remaining the district just before returning in 2000 as a substitute teacher. In 2001, he became the various exceptionalities teacher and a assistance counselor at Eastside Significant Faculty. In 2005, he turned assistant principal at Newberry High University.
This article originally appeared on The Gainesville Sun: Alachua County university district appoints 10 new faculty principals, 2 directors
