LAWRENCE: Westhead new LIS assistant principal

By Lea Kahn, Staff Writer
   Cindy Westhead, a veteran teacher at the Lawrence Intermediate School, has been appointed to the vice principal’s post at the school on Eggerts Crossing Road.
   The Lawrence Township Board of Education named Ms. Westhead to the post at its June 13 meeting. She will earn $94,000.
   She will assume the assistant principal’s post Sept. 1, replacing Dave Adam, who was promoted to principal last month.
   Ms. Westhead, who has taught in the school district for 20 years, said she was honored to be named assistant principal. She taught physical education and health.
   ”I am looking forward to working with the staff at LIS,” she said. “I want to continue to make LIS a great school.”
   The appointment of Ms. Westhead is part of an on-going shuffling of administrative personnel in the district.
   Mr. Adam replaces Jon Dauber, who was named to fill the newly created post of principal of Lawrence High School’s upper school for grades 11 and 12, effective July 1. LHS has been divided into a lower school and an upper school, which required the creation of a second principal’s post.
   The lower school, which will be headed by Principal David Roman, is for grades 9 and 10, and the freshman and sophomore academies. The upper school also handles the three new career academies — the Academy of Arts and Humanities, the Academy of Business and International Studies and the Academy of Science and Technology. The career academies are open to juniors and seniors.
   The goal of creating an upper school and a lower school is to create greater personalization and smaller learning communities. It is patterned after an identical division of LIS into a lower school for grade 4 and an upper school for grades 5 and 6.