New administrative changes are coming to several Lake Washington School District schools this fall.
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.
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.
Toby Brenner, the current Technology Integration and eLearning Coordinator, will fill the principal position at Frost Elementary in Kirkland.
Craig Madsen has been selected to serve as the interim principal at Bell Elementary for the 2011-12 school year.
Craig was an elementary teacher in the district at both Mark Twain and Horace Mann Elementary Schools. He was a successful elementary principal for 20 years in the Edmonds School District. Since that time Craig has been a successful and much respected Interim Principal for five different schools throughout the Puget Sound area. Within these administrative assignments, Craig has also been a part of and overseen several major remodel/construction projects for various elementary schools.
Karen Barker has been selected to serve as the principal at Emily Dickinson Elementary and Explorer Community School in Redmond.
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.
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.
Jamie Warner has been selected to serve as the new principal at Samantha Smith Elementary in Sammamish.
Jamie has been with the district since 2006, teaching fifth and sixth grade at Franklin Elementary and Carson Elementary. She was a member of the core planning team at Carson and has taken on leadership roles at the school this past year as an administrative intern. Jamie earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at Washington State University and her Master of Educational Leadership at City University. She graduated with her administrative credential this June.
