Welcome to the 2018-19 school year in the Medfield Public Schools. I am excited to be joining the district as the new Director of Student Services. It has been a busy summer talking with parents, staff and administrators as I learn more about this great district while completing all the other necessary elements to assure we are ready for school to open. As many of you may know, we have two secretaries in the Department of Student Services- Kim Mitchell and Andrea Moores. In an attempt to streamline questions and concerns and also have it easier for all to know who to turn to, we have tried to align some of the work. Kim will now handle all in district IEP paperwork and Andrea will be the point person for out of district IEP paperwork and transportation. Hopefully, this will provide a clear understanding for all when directing a question towards the department. I mentioned in my opening email that Melissa Devine took a new position with the Brookline Public Schools. Melissa's role was fairly new so we evaluated its impact for the district. Given our current needs, we felt it was important to try to increase student support by hiring a second full time BCBA for the district instead of replacing the duel coordinator/BCBA position. The current coordinators Nancy Giammarco (K-5 coordinator) and Meg Garvey (6-12 coordinator) will return to working with the ACCESS programs at their grade levels to assure streamlined programming for all. Meg Nelson and Missy Bilsborough will return to being the points of contact for the preschool programming. As you may have further read in my opening email, Gina Dalan stepped down as the Out of District Coordinator at the end of the school year. We posted the position in anticipation of hiring for this coming school year. However, given the rushed timeline, we did not feel confident that an efficient process could be carried out to assure the proper candidate was found. Therefore, Gina Dalan and Meredith Becker, who has been working part time as Out of District Coordinator for the past year, have agreed to stay on for the 2018-19 school year. In this way, we can repost the position and assure a thorough process in finding the appropriate next candidate. I have had the great pleasure of meeting and beginning to work closely with the SEPAC board this summer. I encourage all of you that are not aware of their work to check out their website and reach out with questions, concerns or thoughts. sites.google.com/mail.medfield.k12.ma.us/sepac/ I will update this blog at least monthly and look forward to working with all of you. Take Care, Mary Comments are closed.
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AuthorMary Bruhl is the Director of Student Services for the town of Medfield, Massachusetts. Archives
April 2019
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