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Coupeville Middle/High School Vice Principal Leonard Edlund, seen here in 2022, is a popular, hardworking administrator. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Coupeville Middle/High School will be without an assistant principal for several months as Leonard Edlund takes a medical leave.

Edlund has been employed by the Coupeville School District since 2021.

Before that he was a principal in Arizona and an assistant principal in Tacoma.

In his absence, school administrators will shuffle duties and welcome back 19-year vet Tom Black, whose Dean of Students position was cut when the 2023-2024 budget was approved.

Coupeville Schools Superintendent Steve King released the following statement Friday afternoon:

Late last week we learned that our MSHS Assistant Principal will be out on medical leave and will not be returning until at least January of 2024. 

While I received permission from Mr. Edlund to share that he is on medical leave I ask that we respect his privacy during this time.

Please join me in hoping that he makes a healthy return to work.

Since we learned this unexpected news late last week, we have been working on how to continue the duties typically assigned to our Assistant Principal.

I want to thank union leadership and our administrators for their quick assistance.

Here is an outline of our plans:

To address daily supervision and assist with discipline issues, Mr. (Tom) Black will be returning on a part time basis as our temporary Dean of Students.

We are thankful that Mr. Black is able to return and believe that this will be well received by our school community.

In order to have our Career and Technical Education (CTE) program continue to have leadership, our former Coupeville teacher, Susan Haldezos-Galligan, formerly Johnson, will become our Interim CTE Director for the duration of the 2023-2024 school year. 

We are thankful for her willingness to help us in this area and we are fortunate to have someone of her caliber to lead our program.

Mr. (Geoff) Kappes will need additional support with teacher evaluations so we are restoring Allyson Cundiff’s contract days that were reduced since last year so she can do the evaluations of some of our secondary teachers. 

Mr. Kappes and Mrs. Cundiff will be announcing teacher evaluator assignments in the days ahead. 

We are thankful that Allyson is willing to take on this additional work.

If we have any changes to these plans, we will let you know.