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La Center schools realigns principals

Cost-neutral moves add new administrator

By Marissa Harshman, Columbian Health Reporter
Published: April 30, 2010, 12:00am

La Center School District is making administrative changes at most of its schools and the district office and will return to its previous elementary school model for the 2010-11 school year.

The cost-neutral changes created a new administrative position — assistant superintendent of teaching and learning — and consolidated school principals.

“It’s a no-cost move to realign our administrative staff,” Superintendent Mark Mansell said.

Dave Holmes, current La Center High School principal and assistant superintendent, will fill the new administrative role. In the position, Holmes will support students, staff, substitute teachers and volunteers in order to create lifelong learners, Mansell said. Holmes’ focus will be to create and promote the type of learning environment that benefits everyone in the district, Mansell said.

“We figured out a way to provide more opportunities for kids and more support for staff,” he said.

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The district eliminated an administrative position during budget cuts two years ago. The former curriculum director, Bonnie Lock, took a teaching position in the middle school when enrollment increases warranted the need for an additional teacher.

Since eliminating that position, the district’s leadership team re-evaluated its administrative structure and crafted the assistant superintendent of teaching and learning position. Mansell opened the position to all administrators in the district and selected Holmes for the new role.

With Holmes moving to the district office July 1, the current intermediate school principal, Carol Patton, will assume the role of high school principal.

The district is also returning to its previous elementary school model. This school year, the district split the grade school into primary (grades K-3) and intermediate (grades 4-5), with a principal overseeing each. Next year, it will return to a K-5 elementary school model.

Current primary school Principal Scott Lincoln will expand his role to oversee the entire elementary school. Lock will return to the administrative team, since she is no longer needed in the classroom, to serve as the elementary school’s associate principal.

La Center Middle School Principal David Cooke will remain in his current position.

Despite creating the new position, Mansell said the district still has fewer administrators than it did two years ago.

Marissa Harshman: 360-735-4546 or marissa.harshman@columbian.com.

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