Peters School Board Hires New Principal, Teachers

There will be all kinds of new faces at the Peters Township School District when classes resume for the 2013-14 school year.

Peters Township School Directors recently hired the following people:

• Julie Franczyk as Bower Hill Elementary School assistant principal, at a salary of $75,000. She replaces Christopher Shute.
• Paige Conley as intervention specialist at McMurray Elementary School. This is a newly created position.
  
• Kathleen Rys as a sixth-grade teacher at McMurray Elementary School. She replaces Elizabeth Wardzinski.
  
• Rebecca Ritter as a gifted teacher at Peters Township Middle School. This is a newly created position.
  
• Stephanie Van Balen as a business, computer, information, technology teacher at the Peters Township Middle School. She replaces Jessica McHugh.
  
• Stacey Wahl as a learning support teacher at both Pleasant Valley and Bower Hill elementary schools. This is a newly created position.
  
• Sarah Corsinelli as a social studies teacher at Peters Township High School. She replaces Larry Ansell.
  
• Richard Lang as a music/strings teacher at the Peters Township Middle School and McMurray Elementary School. He replaces Marlina DeFelice.
  

• Heather McNamara as a first-semester learning-support teacher at the middle school. She will teach in the place of Pamela Colella.
• Lauren Johnson as first-semester learning-support teacher at McMurray Elementary School. She will teach in the place of Andrea Lamatrice.
  
• Brynn Ebbitt as a special education teacher at McMurray Elementary for the 2013-14 school year. She will teach in the place of Casey Doran.
  
• Anna Wellek as a first-semester fourth-grade teacher at McMurray Elementary. She will teach in the place of Kimberly Callaghan.
  
• Angela Berger as a first-semester mathematics teacher at the high school. She will teach in the place of J. Christopher Whalen.