The Smyrna School District Board of Education approved the following personnel changes at board meetings in June and July:
Retirements
• Esther Downes, math specialist;
• Janet Anderson, secretary, Smyrna High School.
Resignations
• Natalie Bentz, speech language pathologist;
• Jennifer Lambertson, chemistry teacher/physical science teacher, Smyrna High School;
• Kendra Dechenes, chemistry teacher, Smyrna High School.
• Angela Paskell, science teacher, Smyrna High School;
• Casey Osmundson, fifth grade teacher, JBM Intermediate School;
• Lisa Martin, special education teacher, Clayton Elementary;
• Shannon Huff, fourth grade teacher, Clayton Elementary.
Leave of absence
• Angela Ipnar, financial secretry, Central Office, from Nov. 29 to Feb. 28.
Appointments
• Jacquelyn Blevins, software technology specialist;
• Lindsay Barnes, psychologist;
• Elizabeth Buongiorno, speech-language pathologist;
• Steven Gott, principal, Smyrna Middle School;
• Clarence Davis, dean of discipline/associate principal, Smyrna High School;
• Mikell Reed, associate principal, Smyrna High School;
• Dainelle Hampton, physical science teacher, Smyrna High School;
• Kevin Rudolph, business education teacher, Smyrna High School;
• Jessica Burkholder, special education math teacher, Smyrna High School;
• Douglas Wood, sixth grade special education teacher, JBM Intermediate School;
• Mary Beth Wilde, fifth grade teacher, JBM Intermediate School;
• Brooke Alexander, third grade teacher, Clayton Elementary;
• Denise Perry-Balcerak, kindergarten teacher, Sunnyside Elementary;
• Lindsay Graham, first grade special education teacher, Sunnyside Elementary;
• Stacy Deakyne, first grade inclusion teacher, Sunnyside Elementary;
• Dianna Turner, guidance secretary, Smyrna Middle School;
• Jeanne Morris, paraprofessional, Smyrna High School ;
• Erin Greener, pre-K paraprofessional, Smyrna Elementary.
Reassignments
• Amy Musto, from third grade teacher at Clayton Elementary to math specialist at Clayton Elementary;
• Ashley Stuart, from special education teacher at Smyrna High School to fourth grade teacher at Clayton Elementary;
• Marc Deisem, from social studies teacher at Smyrna High School to multi-media/special education teacher at Smyrna High;
• Jennifer Spinden, from math teacher at Smyrna High School to part-time math specialist and part-time math teacher at Smyrna High;
• Patricia Goodlin, from second grade teacher at North Smyrna Elementary to second grade teacher at Clayton Elementary;
• Carlene Wilson, from ICT paraprofessional at JBM Intermediate School to CLP paraprofessional at North Smyrna Elementary;
• Cynthia Atkinson, from paraprofessional at JBM Intermediate School, to paraprofessional at Smyrna Elementary.
