Diocesan leader
Kimberly Ann Fetter, a principal in Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown schools since 2007, has been appointed assistant superintendent of professional personnel for the diocese effective July 1.
Fetter will interview and recommend lay teacher applicants for placement, visit the elementary schools and classrooms to monitor programs, review teacher evaluation reports and advise principals concerning employment issues, conduct professional development workshops for new teachers and supervise the diocesan induction program.
She joins the Diocesan Education Office from Assumption BVM School, Pottsville, where she has been principal since the school formed in September 2011. She was also principal at All Saints Catholic School, Pottsville, and Good Shepherd Regional School, Minersville, and taught at Our Lady Queen of Peace School, Shamokin, and Cardinal Brennan High School, Ashland.
Fetter earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics education at Mansfield University and a master's degree in school leadership at Marywood University, Scranton. She is pursuing her doctor of philosophy in instructional leadership at Marywood.
National presenter
Kay Jones, executive director of Schuylkill County's VISION, was a presenter in a national webinar, "Public Health and Faith Community Partnerships: Model Practices" at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., on April 29.
Sponsors for the webinar included Emory University's Interfaith Health Program, Association of State and Territorial Health Officers, the Office of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The webinar's content focused on a toolkit developed collaboratively by Emory and ASTHO based on a "Model Practices Framework" derived from the work that 10 national sites have done for the last four years. Schuylkill County is the only rural site, the other nine being major metropolitan areas.
On May 3, Jones was one of the presenters of a program at the National Community-Campus Partnership for Health International Conference in Chicago. She presented a program with several physicians from Commonwealth Medical College and a regional director of Area Health Education Centers titled, "Community as Teacher: A New Medical School Tries to " 'Walk the Talk' of True Partnership."