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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Seneca Valley Hires Sewickley Resident as New Acting Assistant Principal

A first-grade teacher, Christin Jamery has been with the district since 2007.

Another familiar face is taking over an administrative position within the Seneca Valley School District. On Jan. 14, the school board approved hiring teacher Christin Jamery, a Sewickley resident, as acting assistant principal for the Rowan and Connoquenessing Valley elementary schools. She replaces Nannette Farmar, who was promoted to acting principal of Rowan after Dr. John Giancola left the position in December to take a job as an English as a Second Language supervisor with the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. Monday marked Jamery’s first day in her new role. Jamery has worked in the Seneca Valley School District since 2007, first as a kindergarten teacher at Evans City Elementary and most recently as a first grade teacher at Rowan. She …

Monday, October 22, 2012

Sewickley Author Pens 'Whale Done School'

Local resident and Moon Area School District assistant superintendent releases her first book on the power of positive reinforcement.

For Cynthia Zurchin, it was a labor of love.  The Moon Area School District assistant superintendent celebrated the release of her first book, The Whale Done School, with an evening book signing recently at the Settlers Ridge Barnes & Noble. The book is a spin-off of the popular 2002 Ken Blanchard book Whale Done: The Power of Positive Relationships.  Zurchin, who resides in Sewickley, said she spent much of the last year working on the book.  In the original Whale Done, management expert Blanchard discussed how the same positive reinforcement used to train killer whales at Sea World could translate in the business world.  Zurchin said lessons from Whale Done helped her transform Pittsburgh's Shaeffer Elementary: The educator stepped in as…

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