{"id":5276,"date":"2018-08-19T20:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T00:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2018-08-19T20:01:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T00:01:25","slug":"a-warm-welcome-to-new-administrators-and-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/a-warm-welcome-to-new-administrators-and-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"A Warm Welcome to New Administrators and Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\">This school year, many of our schools are welcoming new administrators. Some are new to ACPS, while others are new to their school. Be sure to give them all a warm welcome when you see them!<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p4\"><b>T.C. Williams High School<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/c264d43033e4f4ca3b673bfc6\/images\/c847bb43-5e8a-4f6d-83b5-c9d3e55e6065.jpg\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Melissa Deak<br \/>\n<\/b>Director of School Counseling<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Jessica Hillery<br \/>\n<\/b>Lead Administrator for School Improvement &#8211; Mathematics<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Michael David Latham<br \/>\n<\/b>Coordinator of Athletics and Student Activities<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/c264d43033e4f4ca3b673bfc6\/images\/a9e0f196-fac4-4af9-8cf3-3dda15587a43.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Cheryl Mills<br \/>\n<\/b>Lead Administrator for Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment for Grades 9-12<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/c264d43033e4f4ca3b673bfc6\/images\/e019e0d4-75a2-4cf5-895b-cdc122fbaae6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Stacy Morris<br \/>\n<\/b>College and Career Specialist<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/c264d43033e4f4ca3b673bfc6\/images\/5a0eee51-64aa-4c4c-b1fe-4fdaf310a906.jpg\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>James Parker<br \/>\n<\/b>Director of Athletics and Student Activities<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/c264d43033e4f4ca3b673bfc6\/images\/5f85144a-0f2f-4496-861e-39006a85a97c.png\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Christopher Thompson<br \/>\n<\/b>Administrator for Instruction and Student Support<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Edmund &#8220;Berk&#8221; Stoy<br \/>\n<\/b>Assistant Director of Operations, Athletics and Student Activities<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p4\"><b>Francis C. Hammond Middle School<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Anika Buster-Singleton<br \/>\n<\/b>Dean of Students<br \/>\n(formerly at George Washington Middle School)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Jessica Donahue<br \/>\n<\/b>Special Education Accountability Specialist<br \/>\n(formerly at Cora Kelly School for Math, Science and Technology)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Kanika Dorsey<br \/>\n<\/b>Academic Principal, Grade 8<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p4\"><b>George Washington Middle School<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Alexander Duncan<br \/>\n<\/b>Dean of Students<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p4\"><b>Early Childhood Center<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/heidi_wagner-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5281 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/heidi_wagner-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"heidi_wagner\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/heidi_wagner-cropped.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/heidi_wagner-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Heidi Haggerty<br \/>\n<\/b>Principal<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Alicia Kingcade<br \/>\n<\/b>Assistant Principal<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p4\"><b>Jefferson-Houston School<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/mscott_berkowitz-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5282 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/mscott_berkowitz-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/mscott_berkowitz-cropped.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/mscott_berkowitz-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>MScott Berkowitz<br \/>\n<\/b>Principal<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Veronica Del Bagno<br \/>\n<\/b>Assistant Principal<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p4\"><b>Patrick Henry School<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/pamela_buckley-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/pamela_buckley-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"pamela_buckley\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/pamela_buckley-cropped.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/pamela_buckley-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Pam Buckley<br \/>\n<\/b>Assistant Principal<br \/>\n(formerly at William Ramsay Elementary School)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p4\"><b>John Adams Elementary School<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Mark Luther<br \/>\n<\/b>Assistant Principal<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Rachel Seymore<br \/>\n<\/b>Assistant Principal<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p4\"><b>Ferdinand T. Day Elementary School<\/b><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/rachael_dischner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/rachael_dischner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/rachael_dischner.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/rachael_dischner-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Rachel Dischner<br \/>\n<\/b>Principal<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>William Ketchem<br \/>\n<\/b>Assistant Principal<br \/>\n(formerly at Patrick Henry School)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p4\"><b>Cora Kelly School for Math, Science and Technology<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/lauren_holthaus-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/lauren_holthaus-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"lauren_holthaus\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/lauren_holthaus-cropped.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/lauren_holthaus-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Lauren Holthaus<br \/>\n<\/b>Assistant Principal<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p4\"><b>Mount Vernon Community School<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/dowling_holly-2991-cropped-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/dowling_holly-2991-cropped-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/dowling_holly-2991-cropped-1.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/dowling_holly-2991-cropped-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Holly Dowling<br \/>\n<\/b>Assistant Principal<br \/>\n(formerly a Data Coach and Intervention Specialist at Mount Vernon)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Jennifer Hamilton<br \/>\n<\/b>Assistant Principal<br \/>\n(formerly an EL Instructional Specialist at Central Office)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p7\"><b>Central Office<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/wood_kennetra-3091-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/wood_kennetra-3091-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/wood_kennetra-3091-cropped.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-content\/uploads\/wood_kennetra-3091-cropped-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Kennetra Wood<br \/>\n<\/b>Director of Alternative Programs and Equity<br \/>\nDepartment of Student Services<br \/>\n(formerly Lead Administrator at T.C. Williams)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Anita Cordova<br \/>\n<\/b>Director of Operations Coordination<br \/>\nDepartment of Operations<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us in welcoming new principals, assistant principals and directors, as well as those who are new to their roles within ACPS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 02:31:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5311,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions\/5311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}