{"id":153300,"date":"2022-04-19T03:38:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T08:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=153300"},"modified":"2022-04-19T03:39:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T08:39:43","slug":"crestview-approves-long-list-of-hires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/04\/19\/crestview-approves-long-list-of-hires\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview Bd. approves long list of hires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONVOY — Personnel matters were the main focus of Monday night\u2019s Crestview Local Schools Board of Education meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board approved a lengthy list of personnel items, including a contract extension for Superintendent Kathy Mollenkopf through July 31, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amended administrative contracts were approved for Dave Bowen, high school principal; Lindsay Breese, director of curriculum\/instruction; Penny Clark, food service director; Amy Eickholt, program services director; Austin Fleming, athletic administrator; Amy Gerardot, assistant treasurer; Trent Kreischer, middle school principal; Lori Orsbon, administrative assistant, and Jessica Schuette, elementary principal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, board members approved three year administrative contracts for Early Childhood Center Principal Casey Dowler, Meghan Lautzenheiser, assistant technology director, and Shane Leeth, technology coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview will have four new teachers during the 2022-2023 school year. Pictured from left to right: Heather Hitchcock, middle school language arts; Luke Gerardot, elementary intervention specialist, and Hannah Merrill, preschool teacher. Not pictured is Kole Rolsten, middle school intervention specialist. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One-year contracts were approved for Heather Hitchcock, middle school language arts teacher; Kole Rolsten, middle school intervention specialist; Luke Gerardot, elementary intervention specialist; Hannah Merrill, preschool teacher; Jeff Bagley, high school science; Danille Hancock, high school vocal music; Greg Rickard, elementary\/middle computer teacher; Jim Wharton, middle school\/high school physical education; Diane Wilson, middle school intervention specialist; Jessie Arnold, high school English; Macey Ashbaugh, preschool\/special education; Aimee Bassett, high school math; Whitney Bollenbacher, speech language pathologist; Sydney Bowen, preschool teacher; Owen Pugh, bus driver and Diane Schrader, custodian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two-year contracts were approved for Lori Davies, part-time cook and custodian; Julia Germann, Cindy Schaffner,Sara Kahle, and Candy Smith, cooks; James Lautzenheiser, Jared Owens and Matt Perkins, bus drivers; Zoe Longstreth and Ethan Waddles, custodians; Melissa Miller, athletic department secretary; Robin Schumm, paraprofessional, and Sue Speaks, food service worker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The board approved three-year contracts for Doug Etzler, high school intervention specialist; Nicole Kirkpatrick, middle school\/high school art; Sara Pugh, kindergarten; Mitchell Rickard, elementary intervention specialist, Brook Staley, elementary teacher, and Grace Callow, high school Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five-year contracts were approved for Adrienne Boroff, middle school intervention, and Craig Taylor, elementary teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continuing contracts were approved for Kristy Bagley, middle school science; Deb Call, Katlyn Kraner, elementary teachers; Lisa Etzler, middle school math; Colby Kuhn, Title I teacher; Ben Schamp, high school\/middle school physical education; Mandy Couts, cook, Heidi Hicks, custodian and Heather McClure, paraprofessional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Wharton was approved as high school summer driver\u2019s education teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supplemental contracts will be approved during the May board meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor CONVOY — Personnel matters were the main focus of Monday night\u2019s Crestview Local Schools Board of Education meeting. The board approved a lengthy list of personnel items, including a contract extension for Superintendent Kathy Mollenkopf through July 31, 2024. Amended administrative contracts were approved for Dave Bowen, high school principal; Lindsay Breese, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 09:13:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}