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Edlund out (for the year), Black back (full time)

Posted in Everything changes, tagged , , , , on December 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Coupeville High School Vice Principal Leonard Edlund will not return during the 2023-2024 school year.

Meanwhile, Dean of Students Tom Black, originally a budget cut, has been returned to full-time status after starting the year as a part-timer.

Those changes were announced in an email Friday by Coupeville Superintendent Steve King.

The pertinent details:

Recently, we learned that Mr. Edlund, our MSHS Assistant Principal, will not be able to return to work during the 23-24 school year. 

Given this, we are adjusting our plans for staffing and administration support for the secondary campus for the remainder of the school year.

At the beginning of the school year, we made the following changes to help absorb the loss of Mr. Edlund:

1. We brought Mr. Black back to work on a part-time basis as a temporary Dean of Students.

2. To continue providing leadership for our Career and Technical Education Program (CTE), we brought on Susan Haldezos-Galligan, formerly Johnson, to be our CTE Director.

3. We restored days to Allyson Cundiff’s contract that had been cut over the summer so she could assist Mr. (Geoff) Kappes with staff evaluations.

With the updated information regarding Mr. Edlund, we are making changes to the plan for the remainder of the school year.

First of all, we will continue to support the changes made above.

Last week, when we learned that Mr. Edlund would not be returning, we restored Mr. Black to full-time.

We are also exploring the possibility of hiring an interim assistant principal for the remainder of the school year, with Feb. 1 as a potential target start date.

This plan is still being developed, and all options are being considered as we find a viable option to support students and staff while considering the financial implications.

Unfortunately, this evolving situation has affected the secondary campus while increasing district expenses.

I want to thank everyone for their continued work absorbing the significant workload in Mr. Edlund’s absence.

We will inform you once we have finalized our plans for the remainder of the school year.

Meanwhile, we’re all keeping Mr. Edlund in our thoughts and wishing him a full recovery.

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Schools adjust admin roles to cover assistant principal absence

Posted in Not sports? Tough!, tagged , , , , on September 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

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.

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Former Wolf coach earns admin job

Posted in Everything changes, tagged , , , , , , on June 8, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Jon Atkins, seen during his days as Coupeville High School football coach. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Onward and upward.

After more than a decade teaching at Oak Harbor High School, and a two-year run coaching football in Coupeville, Jon Atkins has landed an administration job beginning next school year.

He’ll join Mariner High School in Everett as an Assistant Principal.

Atkins coached CHS football through the 2016 and 2017 seasons, becoming the first Wolf coach to beat South Whidbey in The Bucket game in back-to-back seasons.

During that time be bounced between schools, as he also coached girls basketball at OHHS.

An employee of the Oak Harbor School District since 2008, Atkins started as a coach, then went back to school to obtain his teaching certificate.

He’s taught in the Choices program at OHHS since the 2013-2014 school year.

Before accepting the Assistant Principal position at Mariner, Atkins earned an Educational Leadership administration certificate through Western Washington University.

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