POMFRET — Susan Imschweiler is Pomfret Community School’s new principal. Imschweiler has been an educator for more than half of her life.  Her experiences as a teacher span three states: New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, and a little over two decades.  During that time she taught preschool, special education and grades 3, 4, and 5.  She also worked as a K-5 Math Interventionist/Elementary Math Curriculum Coordinator.  In that position she was responsible for providing professional development to support all elementary teachers in the transition to the Common Core State Standards.  

She begins July 1.

For the last two school years she has worked as an administrator.  The first of those two years was spent as an Evaluation Service Provider.  At that time, she facilitated workshops for all PK-12 teachers and administrators in the development of professional growth goals and student learning objectives. She also completed countless observations of teaching practice and provided actionable feedback to those teachers. Her second year as an administrator has been as the Assistant Principal of Northern Lincoln Elementary School in Lincoln, Rhode Island.  This is a PK-5 school with 456 students and 70 staff members. 

Imschweiler holds a bachelor’s in elementary education, a bachelors in psychology and a masters in educational leadership. This fall she will begin a doctorate program in Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment

Imschweiler has been married for 18 years and has a 9-year-old son