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Principal Klein's October Panther Family Newsletter

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October 2024-2025 by Ashley Lermer

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Welcome Mrs. Shumsky as new Assistant Principal at PS 226

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Good afternoon P.S./I.S. 226 Families,

I hope you're all having an amazing summer so far!

I am pleased to announce that Jenna Shumsky will be joining our school community as the new Assistant Principal, I.A., beginning officially on Monday, August 26th. Utilizing her elementary and middle school instructional experience, her focus will be on the supervision of Grades 1-2 and Literacy (PK-8). I am confident that Ms. Shumsky will be an excellent addition to our school's leadership team. I've included a brief bio below:

Ms. Jenna Shumsky began her career student-teaching kindergarten and 3rd grade in District 21 before becoming a 7th grade social studies teacher. When the Empowerment Zone Initiative was announced in the early 2000s, she helped open a small 6-12th grade school in Crown Heights and served as their 6th/7th grade English Language Arts teacher and grade team leader. In 2011-12, Mrs. Shumsky joined the start-up team for the Middle School Quality Initiative (MSQI) - a middle-grades-focused literacy effort designed to improve literacy rates in secondary settings across New York City public schools - and she became the Executive Director of MSQI in 2014. In 2021-22, MSQI merged with the Literacy Collaborative Office and Ms. Shumsky shifted into the role of Senior Director of K-12 Literacy. In that position, she supported the roll out of NYC Reads and led professional learning across NYC on the science of reading, connecting reading and writing assessment data with core instruction and intervention efforts across grade bands. She is absolutely thrilled to be returning to a school-based position and could not be happier that she landed at P.S./I.S. 226, in the heart of the district she began her teaching career, and the neighborhood where her father was born and raised. Ms. Shumsky lives in West Orange, NJ with her husband and 5-year-old daughter, Abigail. She cannot wait to meet and get to know each of our families throughout the coming school year.

Please join me in welcoming Ms. Shumsky to the P.S./I.S. 226 family! Her email is JShumsky@schools.nyc.gov

Thank you for your continued support and dedication to our school community.

With Gratitude,

Principal Klein