LWSD announces new administrative changes including new principals at three Redmond schools
Published 10:54 am Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The Lake Washington School District (LWSD) will have a number of changes in school administrators for the 2011-12 school year.
Karen Barker has been selected to serve as the principal at Emily Dickinson Elementary and Explorer Community School. Barker interned at both Maywood Hills Elementary in the Northshore School District and at Odle Middle School in the Bellevue School District. She has taught in the Oak Harbor School and Northshore School districts for the past 10 years as a math and reading instructor as well as a health and fitness teacher and curriculum developer. Barker earned her bachelor of arts degree at Western Washington University and her master’s degree from Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan. She graduated from the University of Washington‘s (UW) Danforth Educational Leadership Program in June.
Matthew Livingston has been selected to serve as the principal of International Community School (ICS) and Community School, which are both choice schools in Kirkland and accept students district wide. Livingston comes to LWSD from San Francisco, where he has served as principal of International Studies Academy (ISA), a 6-12 school in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), since 2006. Before his principalship at ISA, Livingston served as principal at Gloria Davis Middle School and at Charles Drew Elementary School, both in SFUSD. Before becoming a principal, he taught middle school mathematics in SFUSD. Livingston earned his bachelor of science degree at the University of California San Diego, his master of education and administrative credential at San Francisco State University, and his doctorate of education in leadership in education equity at University of California Berkeley.
Kirsten McArdle has been selected as the new principal of Norman Rockwell Elementary School. McArdle has more than 10 years of experience at the elementary level, serving as a special education teacher, fifth-grade teacher and kindergarten teacher. McArdle comes from the Issaquah School District, where she has progressively taken on a variety of building leadership roles over the past seven years, culminating in the completion of her administrative internship at Clark Elementary School this past year. She earned her bachelor of arts in English at Clark University in Worchester, Mass., her master of science and education at Wheelock College in Boston and her principal certification at UW’s Danforth Program.
Tina Livingston, the current principal at Rockwell, will move to Rosa Parks Elementary School.
Cindy Duenas, the current principal at ICS and Community as well as Environmental and Adventure School (another choice school open to all students in the district), will become the planning principal for the new STEM school, set to open fall 2012.
Victor Scarpelli, the current principal at Finn Hill Junior High School will add principal at Environmental and Adventure School to his assignment.
