Friday, July 10, 2009

Clarksville High School and Glenellen Elementary School each will introduce a new assistant principal when school starts this year. Lt. Col. Corwin Robinson has been named to the open position at Clarksville High and Melissa Izatt will fill the position at Glenellen.

Robinson has served as district discipline coordinator for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools since 2005. As an Army reservist, he served as deputy commander and chief of operations in Iraq, coordinating reconstruction projects from Baghdad to Al Anbar Provinces. He earned his M.A. In education from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La., additional certifications in educational leadership and in special education from the University of New Orleans; and is a December candidate for his Ed.D. in education administration from Walden University.

Other educational experience includes his service as an assistant principal, an instructional behavioral interventionist, and a special education teacher in New Orleans Public Schools. He also has served as an administrator for counseling, admissions and recruiting at a Department of Defense school in Pineville, La.

Izatt has worked in the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System since 2001. She completed her master’s degree in administration and supervision from Austin Peay State University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She has been accepted as a candidate in the 2009-10 Aspiring Administrators Academy.

As a fourth grade and inclusion teacher at Northeast Elementary School, she also has served as an after-school program director at the school. She earned a B.S. in elementary education from Austin Peay. She is the 2007-08 recipient of the Fred Bunger Graduate Student of the Year, and received honors as Teacher of the Year and Distinguished Classroom Teacher in 2008-09.