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Berkeley Middle Principal To Join WJCC AdministrationBy Amber Lester Kennedy Wednesday, December 22, 2010
David Gaston
David Gaston will become WJCC’s senior director for specialized educational services, replacing Stephen Chantry. Chantry, who submitted his resignation in September, will retire after serving six years as the executive director of Student Services. Karen Swann, who served as Berkeley’s assistant principal for three years and as a hearing officer in the Student Services department, will serve as interim principal at Berkeley, starting Jan. 1, 2011. As senior director for specialized educational services, Gaston will oversee special education programs, discipline hearings, working with community service agencies, social workers and psychologists and supervising Health Services and the Student Health Initiative Program (SHIP). Gaston became principal of Berkeley Middle in 2007. For nine years preceding 2007, he served as a principal and assistant principal at five schools in the Hampton Roads region, including James River Elementary School, Burbank Elementary School in Hampton, Mt. Vernon Elementary School in York County and at York High School in its International Baccalaureate Program. As a teacher, Gaston taught social studies at Bruton High School in York County for seven years and served for one year as high school teacher-in-residence at the York County School Division’s Central Office. He also teaches courses at Old Dominion University. Gaston earned his bachelor’s degree in government and history, a master’s degree in secondary school instruction and a doctorate degree in educational policy, planning and leadership and general administration from the College of William and Mary. Swann earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English and educational planning, policy and leadership at the College of William and Mary. She joined WJCC as a volunteer and tutor at Berkeley Middle School’s after-school program, Project D.I.V.A. in 2001; she helped develop and implement the program with her sorority. She taught English at Toano Middle School for three years, then returned to college to get her master’s degree. Before becoming Berkeley’s assistant principal in 2007, Swann served as the assessment and compliance coordinator at Bruton High School. Since 2003, she has volunteered as a facilitator and instructor with Toano’s Rites of Passage program, developing lessons and activities in manhood and womanhood training for middle school students. |
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