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Birmingham High Schools to Switch Assistant Principals Next Year

Seaholm's Staci Peterson and Groves' Othamian Peterson will switch buildings next year as part of a new administrative structure.

Students at and high schools may be seeing some unfamiliar faces if they're sent to the assistant principal's office next year.

Othamian Peterson, a former Groves dean, has been renamed an assistant principal and will move to Seaholm High School for the 2012-13 school year.

In return, Seaholm Assistant Principal Staci Peterson will move to Groves.

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In an email sent to parents, Groves Principal Fred Procter said Othamian Peterson and Groves Dean Darin Wilcox have been renamed assistant principals due to a review of the high school administrative structure.

"Specifically, (it's also due to) the outstanding work that the two of them have done by assuming additional instructional leadership expectations," Procter said.

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Under the new structure, there will be five assistant principals between the two Birmingham high schools, led by Procter and Seaholm Principal Deena Lancaster. For 2012-13, the administrative teams will be:

  • Seaholm: Lancaster as principal, supported by Othamian Peterson and Assistant Principal Deb Boyer.
  • Groves: Procter as principal, supported by Staci Peterson and Assistant Principal Cathy Hurley.

"We will miss Othamian's leadership and personality at Groves," Procter said. "But this is an excellent opportunity for him to assume an expanded leadership role and take another step in his development as an administrator."

Looking ahead to the 2012-13 school year, no other principals or assistant principals are expected to retire or resign, according to .

That means for 2012-13, the building administration at is expected to remain the same:

  • : Principal Gary Bigger
  • : Principal Debbie Hubbell, supported by assistant principals Alex Agius and Alex Ofili
  • : Principal Jason Clinkscale, supported by assistant principals Sheryl Kennedy and Joanna McKinney
  • : Principal Adam Hartley, supported by Assistant Principal Patricia Chinn
  • : Principal Laura Mahler
  • : Principal Jill Giardi-Coignet
  • : Principal James Lalik
  • : Principal Susan Crocker
  • : Principal Embekka Thompson
  • : Principal Don Tobe
  • : Principal Russ Facione
  • : Principal Jamii Hitchcock
  • : Director Laura Tinsley


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