Glen Cove Welcomes New Staff for the 2022-23 School Year

GLEN COVE, NEW YORK (AUGUST 2022) — The Glen Cove City School District recently welcomed two new assistant superintendents, three principals and two coordinators to its staff for the 2022-2023 school year.

New to the central office is Alexa Doeschner as the district’s incoming Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction & Technology and Unal Karakas as the Assistant Superintendent of Human Relations.

New principals include Allen Hudson at Glen Cove High School, Jacklyn Burnett at Landing Elementary School and Bryce Klatsky at Connolly Elementary School.

Joining the Glen Cove School District faculty as District Coordinators include Kim Riso as Coordinator of Health, Physical Education & Athletics and Susan Poulos as Coordinator of Social Studies.

Ms. Doeschner has nine years as a school leader under her belt, seven of which she has spent at the Glen Cove School District. She served as Assistant Principal of Glen Cove High School for two years, District Coordinator of Science for two years and Principal of Landing Elementary School for the past three years. Prior to becoming an educator, Ms. Doeschner worked at her alma mater, Columbia University, in a cancer research laboratory publishing papers on estrogen receptor expression in breast cancer cells. She completed her coursework in medicine at St. George’s University before changing careers and becoming a New York City Teaching Fellow. Ms. Doeschner is currently pursuing her Doctorate at Southern New Hampshire University. She lives with her husband Daniel, a labor attorney, and their two children.

Unal Karakas began his career as a classroom teacher 17 years ago. He served as a Principal at several different local schools, most recently at Baldwin’s Brookside School – which was the only school on Long Island recognized as a 2022 National School of Character for their robust Character Education Program. Mr. Karakas is currently pursuing his Doctorate at Vanderbilt University.

Allen Hudson III is a life-long resident of Glen Cove and a 1991 graduate of Glen Cove High School, where he served as Assistant Principal for the past 16 years. He has served in various educational roles, including a social studies teacher at Intermediate School 59 in Queens, a Student Support Advisor at Walt Whitman High School in South Huntington and Dean of Students at Baldwin High School. Mr. Hudson played collegiate basketball and is an avid break dancer, serving as an advisor to the breakdancing club at Baldwin High School during his time in that district.

Jacklyn Burnett has 10 years under her belt as a special education teacher for grades 6-8. She previously taught in North Carolina before coming to Glen Cove and earning her tenure at Finley Middle School. She served as the Secondary Instructional Technology Coach, the Co-Supervisor of the K-8 Summer Academy and, most recently, as the Interim Coordinator of English Language Arts. Ms. Burnett has a Bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego and a Master of Science degree in Special Education from National University in San Diego. She also has an Advanced Certificate in Educational Leadership from Stony Brook University.

Bryce Klatsky served as the district’s Coordinator of English Language Arts before serving as Connolly’s Interim Principal last year and becoming Connolly’s Principal for the 2022-23 year. He studied at Skidmore College, Brooklyn College, and Hunter College before earning a Fulbright scholarship to teach in Austria. He then taught for several years in New York City schools.

Kim Riso started teaching 19 years ago and joined the Glen Cove School District 16 years ago as a high school health and physical education teacher. Most recently, she served as the Interim Director of Athletics, Health and Physical Education.

Susan Poulos was a social studies teacher in Glen Cove for the past 26 years and has taught all courses, levels and grades at Glen Cove High School. She is a certified AP Human Geography and AP US Government teacher, initiated the Capstone Civic Engagement Project with the AP Government course and was the first teacher to pilot the Seal of Civic Readiness program in its entirety.

For more information about the Glen Cove City School District, please visit the District’s website at www.glencoveschools.org. Happenings in the District can also be followed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/glencovecityschooldistrict.