Hart Middle School principal Terry Conde has been reassigned to a vice principal role at Amador Valley High, prompting a series of promotions and other administrative shuffling.
Foothill High vice principal Leslie Heller was named at a May 24 board meeting as Conde’s replacement at Hart.
Heller’s post at Foothill will be filled by Marcel Baker, currently a Hart vice principal, school district spokesman Patrick Gannon confirmed Tuesday. Amador Valley vice principal Suzanne Smith will assume Baker’s position at Hart.
The changes started after the school board voted in February to reassign Conde due to unspecified personnel issues, according to Gannon. Conde will continue as principal at Hart until July 1, when Heller will become the principal.
Heller has been with the district for 17 years and has been Foothill’s vice principal since 2012. Conde has served as Hart’s principal since 2010.
Hart is one of four schools that will have a new permanent principal at the start of the 2016-17 school year. Amador Valley, Harvest Park Middle and Walnut Grove Elementary will also have new school leaders — or, in some cases, the new principal started the job this semester.
Harvest Park’s new principal and several more vice principal appointments were also named this week.
Ethan Cheever, a principal in San Bruno, was named at Tuesday’s Pleasanton school board meeting as Harvest Park’s new leader. He has been the principal at Parkside Intermediate School since 2014 and was previously an assistant principal in Newark.
In addition, Alisal Elementary teacher Joseph Meunier was promoted to vice principal at Hart, Mountain View educator Olivia Hayes was hired as a vice principal at Walnut Grove and Vintage Hills, and San Ramon Valley Unified School District special education program supervisor Carolyn Dobel was hired as a vice principal at Pleasanton Middle.
Hart teacher Mary Geasa was also promoted to vice principal at Fairlands and Mohr elementary schools, and San Ramon Valley educator Doris Kwok was hired as an Amador Valley vice principal.
