Ithaca City School District Announces Administrative Appointments

Ithaca, N.Y., June 13, 2018 – At their meeting on June 12, 2018, the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) Board of Education approved the appointment of various administrators for the 2018-2019 school year.

Keith Harrington has been appointed principal of Enfield Elementary School. Mr. Harrington has served in the ICSD since 2007 as a science and social studies teacher at Boynton Middle School, a district-wide instructional coach, a dean of students at Ithaca High School, and an associate principal at Ithaca High School. Prior to coming to the ICSD, Mr. Harrington was a science and technology teacher in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Kristin Herman will be joining Mr. Harrington at Enfield Elementary as associate principal. Ms. Herman has been a middle school teacher in the ICSD since 2013. Prior to this, Ms. Herman was a founding elementary head teacher at Namaste Montessori School in Trumansburg, New York and has also worked as an elementary teacher, instructional specialist, and private reading tutor in Arizona.

Lauren Wright has been appointed associate principal at Boynton Middle School. Ms. Wright first joined the ICSD in 2013 as a social studies teacher at Ithaca High School. Most recently, Ms. Wright has worked as a district-wide technology integration specialist and also serves on the Equity and Inclusion Leadership Council.

Finally, the ICSD has appointed Carlan Gray and Corey Mitchell as associate principals at Ithaca High School. Carlan Gray has been teaching at Ithaca High School since 2005 and has also served as a master educator, science department chair, and cross country coach. Corey Mitchell is coming to the ICSD from Roxboro Road Middle School in the North Syracuse Central School District, where he has been teaching since 1999. Mr. Mitchell is also a former member of the Onondaga Community College Board of Trustees.