Lake Washington School District Announces New Principals

The announced the following administrative changes for the 2012-2013 school year on Tuesday:

• Steven Thatcher has been selected to serve as the new associate principal at Eastlake High School. Steven currently serves a full-time assistant principal/intern at Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in Salt Lake City.

• Heather Frazier will become the principal at Sandburg Elementary and Discovery Community School in Kirkland. Heather currently serves as the assistant principal at in Redmond. Heather replaces Mark Blomquist, who will move to an associate principal position at Inglewood Middle School. Mark replaces Monica Garcia, who will move to an elementary associate principal position, serving Rosa Parks Elementary and several other large elementary schools on the east side of the district.
  
  
• Erin Bowser has been selected as the new principal for  and . Erin replaces Laurynn Evans, who is leaving the district. Erin currently serves as the assistant principal at Rose Hill Junior High and Stella Schola.

• Sean Cassidy, the current assistant principal at , has been selected as the principal at . He replaces Jan Olson, who is retiring.

• Michael Griffen has been selected to serve as the new associate principal at Rose Hill Middle School and Stella Schola Middle School. Currently, Michael serves as the assistant principal at Lakes High School (Clover Park School District) in Pierce County.

• Jeff Larson has been selected to serve in the new associate principal position at  (RHS). Jeff has been at Redmond High School since 2004, teaching Math and Health, and serving as the head coach for Boys’ Basketball. This year, Jeff supported the administrative team at RHS by serving as a part time athletic director and portfolio coordinator.

Earlier this spring, LWSD .