Dan Agins was nominated as Stonington’s 2018 Teacher of the Year for “being the teacher that every student wishes they had,” and the district obliged. The 38-year-old, who just finished his 13th year at Pawcatuck Middle, was honored earlier this month.

Dr. Shamim Patwa has been selected as the next Director of Special Education and Student Support Services for the Mansfield Schools.

The New Milford Board of Education hired Jennifer Delaney on Tuesday to be the assistant principal at Schaghticoke Middle School.

School Superintendent David B. Erwin will retire in January, closing a 42-year education career that includes 23 years as school superintendent in five Connecticut districts, the last eight in Berlin.

Norwalk Public Schools (Neag alum selected as school’s new principal)

Graduates of Bulkeley High School looked forward as they crossed the stage on Thursday, encouraged by peers and educators to never give up in the face of challenges. Principal Gayle Allen-Greene said she was at a crossroads, just like the students, as she is retiring this year after 20 years at Bulkeley, and 37 years in the Hartford public schools.

Sabin Loveland, principal at Global Experience Magnet School for the last six years, has accepted the principal’s position at Wamogo Regional High School, in Litchfield County.

A Redding principal will take over the top position at Noah Wallace School on July 1, Farmington public schools announced. Carrie Wessman Huber, current principal of Redding Elementary School, was selected at the end of a national search to replace Kelly Sanders, who served as principal of Noah Wallace for four years.

Congratulations to our Neag School alumni, faculty, staff, and students on their continued accomplishments inside and outside the classroom.

By state Department of Education standards, Kristina Wallace isn’t eligible to be chosen as Connecticut’s teacher of the year because she doesn’t work in a classroom. But that didn’t stop Wallace’s peers in the Windsor School District from naming her as its 2017-18 educator of the year.