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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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