Marlborough Schools Welcome 3 New Principals Next School Year

Superintendent Richard Langlois and the Marlborough Public Schools announced on Friday that three new principals will join the district’s administrative staff for the 2015-16 school year.

Veteran administrator Brian Daniels has accepted the position of principal at Whitcomb Middle School effective in July. He will fill the position left by Whitcomb Principal Mary Murphy, who has been named the district’s executive director of primary and elementary education for next year.

Daniels currently serves as principal at Monomoy Regional Middle School on Cape Cod. Prior to that, he was the principal of Hudson’s Quinn Middle School for five years. In his career, he has served as curriculum director, social studies teacher, theology and social issues teacher, graphic design teacher, psychology teacher, and facilitator of online professional development. While at Roslindale’s St. Clare High School, he founded a development program and served as its director for several years, continued the release.

Daniels holds a bachelor of arts degree in psychology and history from Boston College and a master’s degree in critical and creative thinking from UMass Boston. He has done post graduate work at Northeastern University, Framingham State University, Worcester State College, Simmons College and Boston State College.

Experienced administrator Ron Sanborn has accepted the principalship at Jaworek Elementary effective in July. He will succeed Principal Cheryl Piccirelli, who has accepted a principalship in another school district.

Sanborn currently serves as principal of a K-5 Title One school in the North Attleboro Public School district, a position he’s held since July 2011. Prior to his principalship, he served as an assistant principal and math specialist for the Lexington Public Schools, a K-5 curriculum coordinator for math and science in Westborough, and a fifth-grade teacher and science department head in the Natick Public Schools.

Sanborn holds a master’s degree in school administration and a bachelor’s degree in science from Framingham State University.

A familiar face will take the leadership reigns at Richer Elementary in July, said the announcement. Alyssa Tully will move from her current position as director of Marlborough’s Early Childhood Center (ECC) to assume the principalship of Richer Elementary, replacing Maria Silletti who has resigned for personal reasons.

In August 2014, Tully was named the ECC interim director, and recently was named its director. Prior to August 2014, she served as the assistant principal at Jaworek Elementary beginning in September 2004. In the spring of 2014, she also served for four months as the acting principal at Richer Elementary in Silletti’s absence. Prior to September 2004, Tully was an occupational therapist at Jaworek for three years.

Tully holds a bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from Worcester State College and a master’s degree in educational administration and school leadership from Cambridge College. Her replacement at the ECC will be identified within the next couple of weeks.

The principal appointments are the result of three separate administrative searches, each with a screening and initial interview committee comprised of district administrative, faculty and parent representatives. The committees were responsible for recommending candidates for follow-up interviews, site visits and reference checks, with Superintendent Langlois making the final decision.

“I want to thank the individuals who participated on these committees,” Langlois said in the announcement. “They did a lot of work in a very short period of time, and I believe that through their efforts we have identified three exceptional leaders for these positions. I’m very much looking forward to starting the new school year with this administrative team in place.”

Langlois said all three have accepted the positions pending the finalizing of their contracts and are expected to assume their new positions in July.