Date: May 17, 2005
Contact: Irene Cromer
Community Relations Supervisor
703-791-8720

SCHOOL BOARD APPOINTS SUMMER SCHOOL PRINCIPALS

The Prince William County School Board has announced the appointments of elementary, middle, and high school summer school principals.

Stacy Armstrong, teacher on administrative assignment at King Elementary School, will assume the position of summer school principal there. A graduate of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in psychology, Armstrong is currently pursuing a master’s degree in educational leadership at George Mason University.

Armstrong began her career working with children in 1993 as a group counselor for socially maladjusted and clinically/mentally diagnosed children at Sarah Reed Children Center in Erie, Pennsylvania. She served as a Title I math teacher/counselor at Vision Quest, Inc., also in Pennsylvania, prior to joining Prince William County as a teacher at Triangle Elementary School. In 2004, she moved to King Elementary School as a second grade teacher.
Tiffany S. Brodie, third grade teacher at Elizabeth Vaughan Elementary School since 2001, has been appointed summer school principal of Montclair Elementary School. In addition to teaching at Vaughan, Brodie has been a Saturday Institute remediation teacher during 2003 and 2004 and an adult education ESOL teacher in 2004. She developed and coordinates the 2005 Saturday Strategic Learning Institute and serves as chairperson of the Parent Advisory Council. Brodie served as summer school principal in 2003 at Westgate Elementary School and in 2004 at King Elementary School.

Brodie received her bachelor of science degree in psychology and her master’s degree in education administration and supervision from Virginia State University.
Brenda M. Callahan, assistant principal at Occoquan Elementary School, has been appointed summer school principal for Lake Ridge Elementary School. She is also an administrative designee for child study and served as a summer school principal in 2000 at Kilby Elementary School, in 2001 at Rockledge Elementary School, and in 2004 at Ashland Elementary School.
Callahan earned a B.S. in elementary education and a graduate degree in administration from George Mason University. She is licensed in elementary/secondary education.

Robert J. Colucci has been appointed summer school principal at Featherstone Elementary School. Colucci began his educational career as a special education teacher at Elizabeth High School in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He also taught special education at Stafford Senior High School in Virginia before becoming administrative assistant at Mary F. Williams Elementary School in Prince William County in 2004.

Colucci received a B.S. in elementary education with an endorsement in special education from West Virginia University and earned a M.Ed. in administration and supervision from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Arleen McCallum-Graham, an EMR/special education teacher and department coordinator at Rippon Middle School since 1985, has been appointed principal of the summer school session at McAuliffe Elementary School. She was also summer school principal at Leesylvania Elementary School in 2004 and at Triangle Elementary School in 2003. McCallum-Graham has also been a summer school teacher and special education coordinator for the county during the summers from 1990 to 2002.

McCallum-Graham received a bachelor’s degree in special education from Norfolk State University and a master’s degree in education and training at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. She also earned a master’s degree in educational leadership, administration, and supervision, from George Mason University.

James Howard, fifth grade teacher at River Oaks Elementary School since 1990, has been appointed summer school principal at River Oaks. He also served as principal for the summer school session at River Oaks in 1995 and 1997, and as a summer school teacher for many years. Prior to coming to Prince William County, Howard also taught in several other districts in the Commonwealth and was an assistant principal in Richmond schools in the 1970s.
Howard received a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Virginia Union University and a master’s degree in education administration and supervision from Virginia State University. He has taken classes in advanced graduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, George Mason University, and Shenandoah University.

Dawn Johnson, fourth grade teacher at Pennington School, has been appointed the summer school principal for Alvey Elementary School. Johnson was assistant principal at River Oaks Elementary School during the school year 2001-2002. Prior to coming to Prince William County Schools in 2000, she taught elementary grades in Manassas City and Prince Georges County and was an assistant principal in Fauquier County.

Johnson received her B.S. in education for early childhood education from James Madison University and her master’s degree in elementary and middle school from George Mason University.

Lisa M. Jones, a life science teacher at Benton Middle School, has been appointed principal of Sinclair Elementary School’s summer school session. Jones also served as summer school principal at Marshall Elementary in 2004, summer school assistant principal at Coles Elementary in 2002, and as administrative intern at Coles Elementary during the 2002-2003 school year. She taught biology at Gar-Field and Stonewall Jackson High Schools. Prior to teaching with Prince William County, Jones was a biochemist and research technician.
Jones earned a B.S. in biological and life sciences from North Carolina State University. She completed the teacher certification program, Master of Arts in education, and licensure in pre-K-12 education leadership and supervision at George Mason University.

Louis F. LePore has been appointed as the summer school principal at Cedar Point Elementary School. For the past five summers he has assumed the administrative duties as principal at Cedar Point, Signal Hill, Bristow Run, and Tyler elementary schools and Woodbridge Senior High School. He also served as an administrative assistant when summer school was held at C. D. Hylton High School in 1999.

Assistant principal at Cedar Point Elementary, LePore was an assistant principal at Stonewall Middle School, administrative assistant at Stonewall Jackson High School, and also served as the night school principal at Potomac High School. At Woodbridge Senior High School he taught health, physical education, and driver education from 1986 until 1999.

A graduate of Slippery Rock State University with a bachelor of science degree in health and physical education, LePore holds a Master of Education in curriculum and instruction and is currently working on another master’s degree in administration from George Mason University.
Koeen M. Madsen, teacher on administrative assignment at Benton Middle School, has been appointed principal of the summer school at Coles Elementary School. Last year he was principal of the summer school program at Benton. A special education teacher at Benton since 2000 and special education department coordinator since 2001, he previously worked at Parkside Middle School in the same position. Madsen also taught special education courses at Central Washington University. He previously taught special education to elementary, middle, and high school students in Hawaii, California, and Washington.

Madsen graduated from Central Washington University with a B. A. in special education and a minor in professional subjects. He also received a Master of Education in administration from Central Washington University and earned a Master of Education in educational leadership from George Mason University.

The summer school principal at Yorkshire Elementary School is Clayton Wark. He has been a sixth grade math teacher at Godwin Middle School for over twenty years and is also the athletic director. Wark is an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme math teacher and team leader. Last year he was the principal of summer school at Mountain View Elementary and at Godwin Middle School in 2003.

Wark earned a B.S. in elementary education from Bloomsburg University and a Master of Education in school administration from George Mason University. He also holds an endorsement in driver’s education from Lynchburg College.

Kevin J. Smith, administrative assistant at Rippon Middle School since 2001, has been appointed summer school principal there. Prior to that, Smith was social studies lead teacher at Leesylvania Elementary School.

Smith earned a B.A. in elementary education with minors in history and English at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. He will complete a M.Ed. in educational leadership at George Mason University in June.

Lawrence E. Wink has been named principal of Lake Ridge Middle School for the summer school session. He came to the county in 1995 and taught at Marumsco Hills Elementary School. Three years later, he transferred to Penn Elementary School and, in the summer of 1998, he was the administrative assistant during the summer session there. He was principal at Loch Lomond Elementary School for the 2004 summer school session, at Signal Hill in 2003, and at McAuliffe in 2002. He is currently a sixth grade teacher at Lake Ridge Middle School.
Wink holds a bachelor of science degree in elementary education/history from SUNY Potsdam, and earned a Master of Education in educational leadership from George Mason University. Certified by the Commonwealth of Virginia in math through sixth grade, he also has state certification in supervision.

Jody L. Berkey is the summer school principal at Gar-Field High School for the 2005 session. Berkey is a special education teacher at Forest Park High School. Previously, she was a special education teacher at KidStep Residential Treatment Facility and a special education teacher and developmental specialist on Merck Multiple Disabilities Inpatient Unit for the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She also was the special
education lead teacher at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Berkey earned her B.S. in special education and elementary education at Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, and her M.Ed. in administration and policy studies from the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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