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Carina Robinson to Succeed Susan Alig As Principal At Lomond Elementary
Alig is leaving to assume a principalship at Oberlin
Carina Robinson -- an assistant principal at Shaker Heights Middle School and former assistant principal at Lomond Elementary -- will become the principal at Lomond when current principal Susan Alig leaves at the end of the school year.
Alig is leaving to assume a principalship at Oberlin, according to the Shaker Schools web site.
Robinson is an alum of Shaker Schools and a graduate of the 1988 class. She returned to Shaker as assistant principal at Lomond two years ago.
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Before that, she was a teacher in East Cleveland and Euclid and in a KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) academy in Baltimore, Md. As a Fisher Fellow in the KIPP School Leadership Program, she completed coursework at Stanford University and helped develop and open a new KIPP academy in Columbus.
From 2009-11, she was principal of Adlai Stevenson School in Cleveland. Robinson holds a B.A. in communication from Cleveland State University and a master’s in elementary education from John Carroll University.
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Shaker Heights Superintendent Mark Freeman had kind words for the outgoing Alig.
“Sue will be missed in Shaker,” he said in a statement on the school's web site. “She has been a tremendous leader, stepping up to every challenge with courage and professionalism. Oberlin is gaining a leader with deep understanding of curriculum, instruction and the International Baccalaureate program.”
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