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Search continues for Fort River Elementary School principal
Fort River Elementary School GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 6/1/2021 10:37:59 AM
AMHERST A search for a new principal at Fort River Elementary School is reopening after the preferred candidate in the previous process took a job outside public K-12 education.
A letter sent last week to staff and families at Fort River from Superintendent Michael Morris and Doreen Cunningham, assistant superintendent for Diversity, Equity and Human Resources, informed them that a new search would have to start.
“The screening committee, interview committee, staff members and Fort River family members who provided feedback strongly supported one of the four finalists as the best fit for Fort River Elementary, and we agreed with their recommendation,” Morris and Cunningham wrote. “Unfortunately, that candidate chose to accept another position outside of public K-12 education.”
Four being interviewed for Fort River principal post
Fort River Elementary School. FILE PHOTO
Published: 4/28/2021 9:05:23 PM
AMHERST A Northampton elementary school teacher is among four finalists being interviewed this week to become the next principal at Fort River Elementary School.
Sadie Cora, who has taught third and fourth grades at Jackson Street Elementary School for the past eight years, is joined as a candidate for the position by Laura Tiktin Sharick, an assistant principal in Brooklyn, New York; Lori Robinson, a teacher and administrator in the Springfield public schools; and Siby Adina, an elementary curriculum coordinator at a Worcester charter school.
Fort River principals to bid adieu
Diane Chamberlain, departing principal at Fort River, stands in a classroom that used to be one half of a quad of classrooms last summer, as part of work done in advance of students coming back to the building last fall. CAROL LOLLIS
Published: 1/31/2021 10:38:36 AM
AMHERST Fort River School’s principal for five years, on an interim and then permanent basis, will be leaving for a position at a school in Thailand at the end of the school year.
In a letter to families sent Thursday, both Principal Diane Chamberlain and Assistant Principal Renee Greenfield announced their departures effective July 1.