
{"id":26776,"date":"2012-07-05T09:46:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=26776"},"modified":"2012-07-05T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:48:38","slug":"chs-gets-new-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/07\/05\/chs-gets-new-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"CHS gets new principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rose Laudicina<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26778\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/07\/05\/chs-gets-new-principal\/chsprincipal-laverne-mattocks\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CHSPrincipal-LaVerne-Mattocks.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"CHSPrincipal- LaVerne Mattocks\" width=\"199\" height=\"327\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CHSPrincipal-LaVerne-Mattocks.jpeg 199w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CHSPrincipal-LaVerne-Mattocks-91x150.jpg 91w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CHSPrincipal-LaVerne-Mattocks-68x113.jpg 68w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CHSPrincipal-LaVerne-Mattocks-60x100.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LaVerne Mattocks<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOne Chapel Hill-Carrboro school is gaining from another district school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s loss.  <\/p>\n<p>LaVerne Mattocks is leaving Phoenix Academy after three years as principal to become the new principal of Carrboro High School. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am really eager to get started,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mattocks said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am ready to start extending myself to the community and hopefully we can do this work together.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>Mattocks is replacing Kelly Batten, who has served as CHS principal since August 2008. Batten announced in April that he would be leaving the district to join Chatham County Schools as the district executive director of secondary education. <\/p>\n<p>Batten started his new job this month; Mattocks took over at CHS on July 1. <\/p>\n<p>So far the transition is going smoothly. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I had a pretty good relationship with Mr. Batten,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mattocks said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I felt like in a lot of ways I would be a good fit for Carrboro High.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>In an April interview with The Citizen, Batten said that his replacement would inherit a school with great potential, something Mattocks is eager to develop. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am excited about the possibilities,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mattocks said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m someone who always likes to challenge myself.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>In her three years at Phoenix Academy, an alternative high school in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district for students who are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153severely disaffected from the educational process,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mattocks had the distinction of being the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first principal. In that roll she was able to help Phoenix Academy transform from an alternative program to a full alternative high school, which included the school becoming accredited. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am really proud of that work,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mattocks said of her years at Phoenix. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What I am going to miss most about Phoenix is the people, the relationships and partnerships that I have made.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But I am really looking forward to making the same kind of relationships in Carrboro,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she added. <\/p>\n<p>Before taking the position at Phoenix, Mattocks worked in the Orange County Schools district at Orange High School and in the Durham Public Schools. When she chose to leave Orange County Schools for CHCCS and Phoenix Academy, she said she was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153impressed by the opportunity to do some real moving and shaking at Phoenix.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Mattocks said she chose to apply for the position at CHS because she felt Phoenix had improved a significant amount during her time there and she wanted to continue to grow professionally. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I always felt that Phoenix each year was getting better and better and closer to a point where I felt it was appropriate to pursue some other opportunities professionally for myself.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, with the district transitioning to the new common-core standards for curriculum, Mattocks felt now was a good time to move. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everyone is going to be in a state of transition next year,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everyone will be learning together.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Chapel Hill-Carrboro school is gaining from another district school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s loss.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26783,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26776\/revisions\/26783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}