The midyear resignation of the Jefferson School principal was announced earlier this week.
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| SMITH-SIMMONS |
Teachers and staff were notified on Jan. 19 principal Tiffany Smith-Simmons would be leaving her post at Jefferson Elementary School. Parents learned the news by way of a recorded telephone message that same evening from Howard Kornblum, assistant superintendent of educational services.
“We are appreciative of Ms. Smith-Simmons work as Jefferson’s principal and wish her good luck with her new job,” Natomas school board president Bruce Roberts told The Natomas Buzz.
According to Kornblum, Smith-Simmons has accepted an instructional coach job at the Sacramento Unified School District where she worked prior to being hired as a first-time principal for Jefferson Elementary School. (Shortly after the 2010-11 school year, Smith-Simmons was featured in a USA Today article about the impact of class size on student performance.)
Jefferson Elementary School, now a K-6 campus in South Natomas, is in program improvement for not meeting standardized test score targets in 2009-10. Jefferson was one of three elementary schools in the Natomas district with new principals this year.
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| GUYER |
American Lakes Elementary School teacher Paul Guyer has been tapped as the interim principal to replace Smith-Simmons for the remainder of the 2010-11 school year. Guyer has taught a number of grade levels at American Lakes the past 10 years. He has also served as the teacher in charge, an academic alignment coach, a PTA liaison and also provided professional development throughout the school district on effective English learner instructional strategies.
“The principal sets the course for what the culture is like at a school,” added Roberts. “Ms. Smith-Simmons was doing good stuff and I am sad to see her go.”
The Natomas district plans to hold a community meeting to introduce Guyer. Plans are to recruit, and hire, a new principal this spring to assume the position starting the 2011-12 school year.
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