Plenty of New Faces for New Pottstown School Year

Pottstown Schools Superintendent Stephen Rodriguez, left, with new Pottstown administrators from left, Assistant Middle School Principal Danny Perez, Director of Co-curricular Activities Matt Miller, Franklin Elementary School Principal Beth Kramer and Director of Nursing Kimberly Perry-Malloy.

There will be no shortage of new faces on the first day of school this year in the Pottstown School District.

No less than 19 new teachers have been hired over the summer, along with 11 other employees including one new principal, two assistant principals, a new director of career and technical education and new director of co-curricular activities.

Of the 30 new faces, 11 are at Pottstown Middle School, which just welcomed a new principal last year, and another six are at Pottstown high School.

On the administration side of the equation, Stephen Park, the director of career and technical

The only school in Pottstown to have no new staff is Lincoln
Elementary School. Lincoln teachers front, Mandy Wampole 4th grade,
rear, from left, Jennifer Groff 3rd grade, Denise Schleicher 4th grade,
Michael Koman 3rd grade, Diane Hahn 3rd grade.

education is retiring and being replaced by Jeff Delaney, who is moving up from assistant principal at the high school.

His post at the high school is being filled by Dave Livengood.

The new assistant principal at the middle school is Danny Perez, who is fluent in both Spanish and English and previously worked at a school in the Bronx, N.Y.

Matt Miller is the new director of co-curricular activities, He previously worked at two Philadelphia charter schools.

Kimberly Perry-Malloy is the district’s new director of nursing.

At Franklin Elementary School, Kevin Downes has retired as principal and is being replaced by Beth Kramer, a graduate of St. Joseph’s University who was most recently the principal of the Bell Avenue Elementary School in the William Penn School District.

The district has also lost 12 van drivers when it contracted the service to an outside vendor in a budget-cutting move in June. Five classroom assistants have also left the district.

And now, without further ado, here are the Tweets from the meeting:

New Faces