Thursday, May 17, 2007

Principal Corinne Vinal Resigns to Take New DOE Post

The School Leadership Team was convened for an emergency meeting yesterday, May 16, by Local Instructional Superintendent Jill Myers. The reason for the meeting, sadly, was to announce that our Principal, Ms. Corinne Vinal, has resigned her position to accept an exciting new opportunity with the DOE's central office. In her new position, she will work as a mentor to as many as 30 school principals around the City.

While Ms. Vinal will continue as MCSM's principal through the end of this school year, we must begin immediately to search for a new principal. Jill Myers will lead this search on the school's behalf, but her initial role will be to obtain and review candidate resumes and select 4 - 5 individuals for further interviewing. Ms. Myers' plan is to have selected a new principal by June 29th.

This process of selecting principals for their school positions is called a C30. A group of teachers, parents, and two students make up a C30 committee. They will interview the principal candidates as a group and advise Ms. Myers regarding each candidate. We will need 4 - 7 parent volunteers for this VERY important committee, since we will be deciding on our school's leadership for the coming years. If you are interested in participating in this C30 process to help select our next principal, please contact Steve Koss at mathman180@aol.com or Parent Coordinator Julia Valentin at jvalentin2@schools.nyc.gov as soon as possible.

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