HEATH — Eric M. Glazier, principal of the Heath Elementary School, will be leaving at the end of this school year to accept a new job as principal of the North Brookfield Elementary School.
Glazier has been principal of the Heath Elementary School for five years. Before that, he taught middle school history for nine years at the Ralph C. Mahar Regional School in Orange. He was principal of the Pearl Rhodes School in Leyden before coming to Heath. Heath currently has 50 students, he said. North Brookfield Elementary has 350.
“I have enjoyed my time working in Heath, with great parents, staff and teachers,” he said. “I am proud of the work we’ve done to bring Heath to a (MCAS) Level 1 school and keep it there. I will miss working for the Mohawk district, but I’m looking forward to the next chapter in my career.”
Superintendent of Schools Michael Buoniconti said that Jesse Porter-Henry will become the new Heath Elementary School principal on July 1.
Porter-Henry grew up in Heath, and has been the vice principal of the Mohawk Trail Regional High School since the 2014-15 school year.
Instead of replacing Porter-Henry with a new Mohawk vice principal, Buoniconti said the high school will change to a co-principal leadership model, with Principal Lynn Dole and another principal working as a team.
“Mr. Porter-Henry’s transition creates an opportunity for Mohawk to implement a co-principal educational leadership model that offers significant instructional and managerial benefits through a more balanced and shared workload between principals,” Buoniconti said, in an email.
He said the co-principal educational leadership model has been used by some of neighboring school districts, including the Mahar district.
“Mohawk will begin its search for a co-principal immediately and is in the process of forming a hiring committee representative of the school community,” Buoniconti said.
Those interested in serving on this search committee should get in touch with the superintendent at 413-625-0192, ext. 1010.