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WASD Welcomes New Faculty, Administrators and Position Changes for 2024-2025 School Year

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August 19, 2024 | Faculty News

A group photo of this year's induction class.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AUGUST 19, 2024) — The Williamsport Area School District announces its welcome to its new faculty members for the upcoming 2024-2025 academic year.

The following individuals are members of the WASD new faculty and this year’s induction class:

  • Becca Baier, special education teacher, Jackson Primary
  • Elizabeth Bair, long-term substitute teacher, Lycoming Valley Intermediate
  • Carynn Banner, sixth-grade teacher, Lycoming Valley Intermediate
  • Abbey Barnhart, special education teacher, WAMS
  • Blaze Buckwalter, health and physical education teacher, Jackson Primary
  • Savannah Cajka, school librarian, WAHS and WAMS
  • Hailey Crowley, long-term substitute teacher, Cochran Primary
  • Alyssa Day, speech and language teacher, district-wide
  • Mackenzie Day, long-term substitute teacher, WAHS
  • Lily Douglass, fifth-grade teacher, Lycoming Valley Intermediate
  • Shannon Evans, school social worker, primary buildings (K-3)
  • Tymir James, long-term substitute teacher, Curtin Intermediate
  • Tara Johnson, school counselor, WAHS
  • Lauren Kearney, long-term substitute teacher, Jackson Primary
  • Paiton Knorr-Fought, fifth-grade teacher, Lycoming Valley Intermediate
  • Danielle Lanzer, fifth-grade teacher, Curtin Intermediate
  • Brandon McGaw, sixth-grade teacher, Curtin Intermediate
  • Madisyn Neal, eighth-grade science teacher, WAMS
  • Emily Penrod, special education teacher, Cochran Primary
  • Jesse Plocinski, special education teacher, Curtin Intermediate
  • Olivia Racho, special education teacher, Hepburn-Lycoming Primary
  • Kylie Russell, special education teacher, Curtin Intermediate
  • Andrea Schmucker, special education teacher, Cochran Primary
  • Emily Seidel, special education teacher, WAMS
  • Elizabeth Shaffer, seventh-grade English teacher, WAMS
  • Brianna Strickland, long-term substitute teacher, Lycoming Valley Intermediate
  • Nicholas Thompson, long-term substitute teacher, WAHS/CTE
  • Emily Wead, long-term substitute teacher, Cochran Primary
  • Kerigan Wettlaufer, math teacher, WAMS
  • Alyssa Williams, long-term substitute teacher, Hepburn-Lycoming Primary
  • Paige Wolf, third-grade teacher, Hepburn-Lycoming Primary
  • Jennifer Yocum, school psychologist, district-wide

The following individual is a new member of the district’s administrative team:

  • Keith Veldhuis, grade-level principal, WAHS

The following members of the district’s faculty and administration will take on new positions this school year:

  • Jacob Anderson, who served as a dean of students at WAHS, will now be the assistant principal at Curtin Intermediate
  • Liz Dincher, who served as a special education teacher at WAHS, will now be a grade-level principal at WAHS.
  • Kaitlyn Eck, who served as a school counselor at WAHS, will now be the career counselor at WAHS.
  • Dustin Johnson, who served as a fifth-grade teacher at Curtin Intermediate, will now be the intermediate level (grades 4-6) math coach.
  • Sue Johnson will move from being a second-grade teacher at Jackson Primary to first-grade teacher at the same location.
  • Lindsey Neuhard, who served as a special education teacher at Hepburn-Lycoming Primary, will now be a special education teacher at WAHS.
  • Tristan Sponseller, who was a special education teacher at Cochran Primary, will now be a special education teacher at WAHS.
  • Kim Williamson, who served as a grade-level principal at WAHS, will now be an eighth-grade English teacher at WAMS.

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