Hen Hud Names New Principal for Furnace Woods School
The Hendrick Hudson Board of Education selected a new principal for Furnace Woods Elementary School last week to succeed Dr. Helene Kane, who is retiring in June after 18 years at the helm.
Dr. Cynthia Kramer, currently assistant principal at the Bedford Road School in Pleasantville, will officially take over on July 1.
“It was crystal clear, from the three-hour site visit I made to her school, that Cindy would be a great fit for the Furnace Woods community,” said Hen Hud Superintendent of Schools Joseph Hochreiter. “She’ll be a great asset and I am looking forward to working with her.”
Kramer, who lives in Pleasantville with her husband, four-year-old daughter and 10-year-old twin sons, was a teacher in Cape Cod and Long Island before becoming an administrator in Suffolk and Nassau counties.
“I think it is trying to balance all the needs of all the stakeholders—the parents, the teachers, the students, the community—and trying to listen to what each group wants, and figuring out how to manage that,” Kramer said about the challenger of being an administrator.
Kramer also addressed the Common Core Learning Standards, which she feels have a lot of benefits.
“(They) raise the bar and they do give us a nice map of what needs to be taught at each grade level…a common language across districts and across states,” she said. “Where the controversy, I think, comes in is with the assessments.”
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