Hamilton County Schools Announce New Principals Thursday, April 22, 2021
Dr. Sarah Lane
As the district looks to the 2021-2022 school year, Hamilton County Schools announced several personnel updates Thursday, including new principals.
Crystal Sorrells has been named the principal at Brainerd High School. She previously served as principal of East Ridge High School and was named 2021 Principal of the Year for Hamilton County Schools.
Ms. Sorrells, a Brainerd High School graduate, has been an educator for 22 years and is the daughter of two longtime HCS educators. She first joined Hamilton County Schools in 2009 as assistant principal at Brainerd High School. Since then, she’s served as principal at Orchard Knob Middle, Tyner Middle Academy and East Ridge High School. Ms. Sorrells is a High School Mentor Principal for the Missionary Ridge Learning Community and graduated with the first cohort from the Principal Leadership Academy sponsored by Hamilton County Schools
Phitsamay Uy is helping to lead a mentoring initiative aimed at expanding the ranks of Asian American teachers by supporting those new to the profession or aspiring to enter it.
COVID pandemic creates rare opportunity for education reform, experts say
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By Katie Lannan and Chris Lisinski | State House News Service
Education advocates and experts told state senators on Wednesday that the disruption caused by the COVID-19 crisis presents a unique opportunity to reform aspects of all levels of schooling and encouraged them to act before that moment passes Massachusetts by.
“I think we’re in a very short window of opportunity, about a five-year window of opportunity, to make transformational, high-quality, systematic, sustainable changes in education, and I’m urgent about our following through on that,” Hardin Coleman of the Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development told members of a Senate committee.
Hamilton County Schools Announces New Principals Thursday, April 22, 2021
Dr. Sarah Lane
As the district looks to the 2021-2022 school year, Hamilton County Schools announced several personnel updates Thursday, including new principals.
Crystal Sorrells has been named the principal at Brainerd High School. She previously served as principal of East Ridge High School and was named 2021 Principal of the Year for Hamilton County Schools.
Ms. Sorrells, a Brainerd High School graduate, has been an educator for 22 years and is the daughter of two longtime HCS educators. She first joined Hamilton County Schools in 2009 as assistant principal at Brainerd High School. Since then, she’s served as principal at Orchard Knob Middle, Tyner Middle Academy and East Ridge High School. Ms. Sorrells is a High School Mentor Principal for the Missionary Ridge Learning Community and graduated with the first cohort from the Principal Leadership Academy sponsored by Hamilton County School
Newly opened MiraVista hospital in Holyoke launches addiction services; hopes to open psychiatric beds next week
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MiraVista Behavioral Health Center at 1233 Main St. in Holyoke is located at the former site of Providence Behavioral Health Hospital. (Don Treeger | The Republican)
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HOLYOKE MiraVista Behavioral Health Center began offering addiction services this week at the former Providence Behavioral Health Hospital and hopes to open inpatient psychiatric beds next week.
Mercy Medical Center, part of Trinity Health Of New England, was scheduled to end its predominately outpatient addiction services Wednesday. It was announced in February that the 1233 Main St. site had been sold by Mercy for $4 million to Health Partners New England and GFI Realty, which renamed the facility MiraVista.