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Administrative Changes for 2018-19
June 11, 2018 - Superintendent Scott has recently announced a number of administrative changes for the 2018-19 school year.
- Hilhi Principal Dave Vickery. Vickery has been selected as the new principal of Hilhi, subsequent to Lou Bailey’s acceptance of the executive director of secondary programs position in the Lake Oswego School District. Vickery is currently an assistant principal at Glencoe High School. His educational career began ten years ago when he taught both general and special education at Cascade Jr. High School in Turner, OR. He moved to Hillsboro in 2010 and accepted at job at South Meadows Middle School as a special education teacher and PBIS coordinator. In the 2013-14 school year, Vickery served as the dean of students at Hilhi, and for the following two years he was one of the school’s two assistant principals. He began his current role at Glencoe in 2016.
- Indian Hills Elementary School Principal Deborah Hunt. Hunt has been selected as the new principal of Indian Hills Elementary School, subsequent to Bruce Bourget’s retirement at the end of the 2017-18 school year. Hunt is currently the principal of Madras Elementary School. Her career in education has spanned eighteen years, with her first six years spent teaching first, second, and third grade. From 2009 to 2013, she served as an elementary instructional coach modeling and coaching effective teaching strategies for teachers and educational assistants. In this role, she also facilitated professional development on monitoring and adjusting instruction based on student needs, performance, standards, and pacing. She has been in her current role since 2013, supporting and guiding her staff in creating learning environments where students are successful both academically and socially.
- Quatama Elementary School Principal Yolanda Coleman. Coleman has been selected as the new principal of Quatama Elementary School, subsequent to Christy Walters’ appointment as principal of Witch Hazel Elementary School. Coleman is currently the assistant principal of the Martin Luther King Jr. School (PK-8) in the Portland Public School District. Coleman began her career at Martin Luther King Jr. School in 2011 as a student management specialist and positive behavior coach. Then, in 2013, she served as both the school counselor and interim assistant principal. Next, Coleman spent a year at West Sylvan Middle School as the assistant principal before returning to Martin Luther King Jr. School in 2015 to assume her current position. Coleman was named the Portland Public Schools Assistant Principal of the Year for 2015-16.
- Witch Hazel Elementary School Principal Christy Walters. Christy Walters has been selected as the new principal of Witch Hazel Elementary School. She will take over from retired District administrators Janis Hill and Crystal Schmidt-Dipaola, who have been serving as co-interim principals of the school since the departure of former principal Jennifer Hernandez in October 2017. Walters is currently the principal of Quatama Elementary School. She started with the Hillsboro School District in 2006 as a Title I reading specialist and reading coach at Eastwood Elementary School, and site test coordinator at multiple locations. In 2010, she became an instructional coach at Witch Hazel Elementary School, where she spent four years and was instrumental in launching the school’s dual language program in the 2012-13 school year. Walters was named principal of Quatama in 2014; there, she has been an inclusive and active leader who is focused on the success of all students. The school has been nationally-recognized for its STEAM programs, and enjoys a vast network of parent and community partners that supports students and staff in a variety of ways.
- Century High School Assistant Principal Julie Kasper. Kasper is currently the activities director at Century High School. Out of her nineteen years in this role, she has helped students earn the highest recognition possible through the Oregon Association of Student Councils in seventeen of them. She successfully petitioned the National Association of Student Councils to hold its National Leadership Conference at Century in 2016, which brought thousands of students to Hillsboro from across the country and was extremely successful. In the 2017-18 school year, Kasper was named to the National Association of Secondary School Principals Student Advisory Leadership Committee. In addition to being Century’s activities director, Kasper has also taught English and leadership courses. She served as one of the school’s AVID site team members and helped expand AVID strategies school-wide. She has participated on the District’s Future Leaders program and has served as an administrative substitute.
- Glencoe High School Assistant Principal Janette Johns. Johns is currently the dean of students at Hilhi. She began her educational career in 1999 as an English teacher at Douglas High School in Winston, Oregon, where a highlight was being named Teacher of the Year in 2005-06. After nine years there, she moved to Roseburg High School where she served as both a reading specialist and English teacher. In 2014, she assumed her current position at Hilhi and also completed her initial administrator license from Lewis & Clark College. At Hilhi, she has been a member of the administrative, instructional leadership, and Climate and Culture teams. She has also served on the District’s Equity Team.
- Curriculum and Assessment Coordinator Amy Blakey. Blakey is currently the principal of Forest Hills Elementary School in Lake Oswego. She began her educational career in 2001 as a middle school language arts and English teacher in the Klamath County School District. In the 2006-07 school year, she added the responsibilities of literacy TOSA and regional school improvement coordinator for ODE. The following year, she served as both a principal and curriculum coordinator for the Dixon Unified School District in Dixon, CA. In 2011, she accepted a principal position in the Travis Unified School District in Fairfield, CA, and since 2014 she has been serving in her current role. Blakey’s strong skill-set includes curriculum alignment, professional development, PLCs, and relationship-building. She is currently working on her doctoral degree in transformational leadership.
- Associate Coordinator of Early Learning and Career and College Pathways Kelly Purdy. Purdy is currently the teacher on special assignment (TOSA) for early learning and career pathways. Purdy came to the Hillsboro School District in 2001, serving as a Family and Consumer Science teacher at Hillsboro High School. She ran a highly successful Early Childhood Education career-technical education (CTE) program at the school for 15 years, and also served in several leadership roles including CTE department chair and PLC leader, as well as Board Secretary for the Oregon Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (ORAFCS). In her TOSA role, Purdy helped expand early learning sites for the District as well as CTE programs. Also during this time, Purdy participated in the Future Leaders program, earned her administrative license, and gained building experience as a principal substitute. The associate coordinator position was created due to the resourcing needs for our rapidly-expanding CTE, AP/IB, and Dual Credit programs that have arisen as a result of the passage of both Measure 98 and our 2017 bond.
The hiring process is currently under way for one additional administrative position: Hilhi assistant principal. Current assistant principal Courtney Leonard has accepted the principal position at Charlemagne French Immersion Elementary School in Eugene, creating the vacancy. Information about the successful candidate will be added to this list as soon as possible.