Rhode Island Educator Hired To Be Assistant Principal At NH's Concord High School

CONCORD, NH — An educator from Rhode Island with nearly two decades of experience has been hired as an assistant principal at Concord High School.

Rebecca DelBarone of Cranston, RI, was hired on Monday to fill the position of Tim Hebert, who has been hired to lead the school after the retirement of Michael Reardon at the end of the school year. She was hired after two rounds of requests for applicants and interviews.

DelBarone, who is from Rhode Island, said her grandparents grew up in the Concord area, so she was familiar with the area and planned on relocating to New Hampshire. She said she was supportive of competency-based learning, something she was attempting to get Providence schools to embrace, and diversity, equity, and inclusion work the district was undertaking, putting it at the forefront and calling it important.

DelBarone’s family attended the SAU 8 school board meeting Monday. She said they planned to retire to New Hampshire, and after the coronavirus pandemic, began to question why they were waiting to move. The CHS position was the first job she applied to in New Hampshire, she said. DelBarone said the district embraced the same priorities she supported, too.

DelBarone, according to her LinkedIn profile, has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and political science from Rhode Island College and a Masters of Arts in ESL education and cross cultural studies from Brown University.

DelBarone has held various educator and administration positions in Rhode Island since 2007 including a quantitative reasoning specialist and advisor at the Metro Regional Career and Tech Center in Providence and a curriculum coordinator and mathematics department chair at Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College. In 2017, she began teaching in K-12 settings — including math at Woonsocket High School, PTECH Mathematics for the Woonsocket Education Department, and assistant principal jobs at Woonsocket Middle School and DelSesto Middle School in Providence.

Before teaching in Rhode Island, DelBarone was a math teacher for a few years in Miami Dade County.

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