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Westminster opens with new leaders

Elementary, high schools have new principals

Westminster opens the school year this week with two new principals.

Kristi Ann Kerins will replace Lee Friedman, who retired, as principal of the elementary school, which begins classes Thursday. At Westminster's high school, J. Ross Peters will replace interim principal David Drake. The high school begins the new year Wednesday, along with the middle school.

Kerins comes to the Buckhead private school from the Phillips Brooks School in Menlo Park, Calif., where she was head of school, according to a news release from the school.

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Peters was upper school director at the Hawken School in Cleveland, Ohio.

Also this year, Westminster will launch its 1:1 Macbook program, with students to receive Apple notebook computers. This year, grades 6 to 8 will be using the Macbooks, while the high school will introduce the 1:1 program to grades 9 to 12 in the fall of 2012.

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The 4th and 5th grades will be using Toshiba netbooks for one year, and then both grades will transition to the Apple device. In addition, elementary school teachers will use iPads in a pilot program for use of the notebooks by students from Pre-first to 4th grade.


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