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<strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong> <strong>Medway</strong> & <strong>Millis</strong> Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com Page 7<br />
Welcome to <strong>Medway</strong><br />
Public Schools!<br />
<strong>Medway</strong> held a welcoming reception<br />
for four new faces in the<br />
<strong>Medway</strong> Public School system<br />
on September 6th. Pictured from<br />
left to right, Craig Juelis, (Middle<br />
Photo by Sandy Johnston<br />
School principal), Amy McDonald<br />
(McGovern principal), Jim<br />
Kane (Facilities Dir.) and John<br />
Murray (High School principal).<br />
<strong>Medway</strong> Senior Center<br />
Chess Club Forming<br />
Are you a chess player who<br />
would like an opportunity to play<br />
on a regular basis? The <strong>Medway</strong><br />
Senior Center is looking for interested<br />
players to sign up to play<br />
other centers in the area. Dates<br />
and times to be determined once<br />
a team has been established. Call<br />
the center at (508) 533-3210 to<br />
learn more!<br />
Amy McDonald, Principal,<br />
John D. McGovern Elementary<br />
Amy McDonald has recently<br />
been welcomed as the principal<br />
of the John D. McGovern Elementary<br />
School, which serves<br />
preschool, Kindergarten and<br />
first-grade students in <strong>Medway</strong>.<br />
The married Mom of two young<br />
girls, Isabella and Harley, lives in<br />
Hopkinton.<br />
McDonald grew up in upstate<br />
New York in a family of teachers<br />
and nurses.<br />
“I knew at a young age this<br />
profession was what I wanted to<br />
do,” says McDonald, who double<br />
majored in Psychology and Special<br />
Education at Hobart & William<br />
Smith College.<br />
Loving every practicum she<br />
did, McDonald went on to graduate<br />
school at BC, mastering in<br />
Curriculum and Instruction and<br />
student teaching a second-grade<br />
class there. She taught as an art<br />
teacher, a first-grade teacher and<br />
a Kindergarten teacher for over a<br />
decade, receiving her Certificate<br />
of Graduate Study and finding<br />
she loved the leadership role.<br />
“I love to problem solve, to<br />
help people get to a better version<br />
of themselves, and myself, too, so<br />
we can have a better impact on<br />
students,” says McDonald.<br />
McDonald served for two<br />
years as assistant principal and<br />
for another two years as principal<br />
of the large James W. Hennigan<br />
School in Jamaica Plain, followed<br />
by seven years as principal of the<br />
smaller Philbrick Elementary<br />
School in Roslindale.<br />
“It was a very diverse population,<br />
but a smaller school,” says<br />
McDonald.<br />
The principal found herself<br />
living in Hopkinton after she got<br />
married, and after having her<br />
twins in 2016, landed a position<br />
she loved as an assistant principal<br />
at an elementary school in<br />
Ashland before applying for the<br />
<strong>Medway</strong> position.<br />
“I feel like all my experiences<br />
have led me to be here,” says<br />
McDonald, who says her new<br />
position is everything she’d been<br />
looking for, from elementary<br />
grade Spanish, a strong readers<br />
and writers workshop, and a<br />
strong commitment in the district<br />
to work on social and emotional<br />
learning.<br />
“I loved the sense of community<br />
from this school,” says<br />
McDonald, who says McGovern<br />
struck her as “a special place,<br />
where people really cared about<br />
each other.<br />
I think that one part of my job<br />
is to bring the (McGovern) community<br />
together, to help families<br />
feel connected to our family and<br />
MCDONALD<br />
continued on page 8<br />
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