Schools

New MAMS Principal and Lloyd Road Assistant Principal Appointed

The Board of Education voted to hire two new educators in an executive session Monday night

The Matawan Aberdeen Regional School District will welcome a new principal and assistant principal for the 2012-13 academic year.

The Board of Education appointed Cory Radisch as principal of Matawan Aberdeen Middle School and Matthew Howell as assistant principal of Lloyd Road School during an executive session Monday night, following the board's regular action meeting, according to Board of Education President Charles Kenny.

Radisch is currently employed by the Oceanport Borough School District as the principal of Maple Place Middle School.

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"I found Mr. Radisch to be an instructional leader who sets high expectations for student achievement," Kenny said Tuesday morning. "He possesses the quality of character that the Board of Education and the superintendent wish to have in a leader at our middle school."

Howell is presently a principal at Lillian Drive Elementary School in Hazlet Township, according to Kenny.

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"The superintendent and the board recognize that Mr. Howell has a mastery of a variety of instructional and assessment practices and he supports the use of those assessment practices in a student centered learning environment," Kenny said.

The appointments filled two vacancies in the district.

The current principal of MAMS, Tyler Blackmore, handed in his , . His resignation .

According to Kenny, the Lloyd Road School has been without an assistant principal since Sept. 2010. Beginning in the fall of 2011, the two assistant principals at MAMS have been rotating their schedule so that four days a week one of them is present at the upper elementary school.

The rotating schedule started after the school in the 2010-11 academic year.

Both Radisch and Howell are expected to begin during summer vacation to prepare for the 2012-13 academic year.


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