(FRANKFORT, Ky.) – Jamie Spugnardi, current director of instructional support services for the Green River Regional Educational Cooperative (GRREC), has been named associate commissioner of the Office of Teaching and Learning, the Kentucky Department of Education announced today.
Spugnardi fills the post vacated by Starr Lewis, who has served in the position since 2000 and is retiring.
As associate commissioner, Spugnardi will oversee the Divisions of Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Development and Secondary and Virtual Learning. The office and its divisions provide services to Kentucky public school districts, including curriculum resources, preschool, the Kentucky Virtual High School and dropout prevention.
Spugnardi has 26 years of educational experience and has served as director of instructional support services for GRREC since 2004, providing professional development resources, coordinating grant budgets and facilitating development of standards-based units of study for local school districts. Her prior experience includes site coordinator for the Model Teacher Preparation Program at Western Kentucky University; director of Region Two Service Center in Bowling Green (a resource center for local school districts operated by the Kentucky Department of Education); and elementary school teacher for the Warren County school district. Spugnardi also served as a Kentucky Distinguished Educator (later known as Highly Skilled Educator) from 1994 to 1997.
Spugnardi earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees and a Rank I from Western Kentucky University. She also holds a Kentucky teaching certificate with an early childhood endorsement and an instructional supervision certificate.
Spugnardi is expected to begin her duties before the beginning of the 2007-08 school year.
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