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Principals Mr. Joseph Dymek Ms. Nicole Harryman Mr. Samuel Richman Mr. Martin Vandenberge |
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| Principal - Mr. Sterlind S. Burke, Sr. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mr. Sterlind S. Burke, Sr. is currently the Principal of Hammond High School in Columbia, Maryland. He has been a Howard County Public School professional educator since 1975. As a professional educator at the middle school level, Mr. Burke taught social studies for 14 years and served as a grade level team leader at the middle school level. His career as a middle level school-based administrator began in 1989, where he served two and a half years as an assistant principal. Burke has spent the last sixteen and a half years as a Principal, with most of the years being spent at the middle school level. He has received recognition such as Whos Who Among Americas Teachers (1991), Excellence in Minority Achievement Award (2005) and the Middle Level Met Life/NASSP State Principal of the Year (2003). Sterlind S. Burke, Sr. has been a member of the Maryland Middle School Association, the National Middle School Association, the Maryland Association of Secondary School Principals as well as the National Association of Secondary School Principals. He was part of a national Junior Achievement Blue Ribbon Panel (2003) to evaluate the middle school curriculum of the organization. He has served on the Superintendents Advisory Council on Business Education Partnerships (Howard County/ 1997-2003), the National Assessment of Educational Progress Economics Planning Committee (2001- 2002) and was the President of the Howard County Secondary School Administrators Association (1994-1995). Burke has also served on a number of Maryland State level committees and task force. He has served as a member of the Maryland Task Force on the Education of African American Males (2003-2004), Maryland State K-16 Leadership Council (2003-2004), Maryland State PreK-16 Workgroup (2004-Present), Middle School Certification Committee (2004), and the Maryland Technology Literacy by Grade 8 Advisory Council(2005-2006) and the Maryland Instructional Technology Advisory Council (2006-Present). As an educator, he has always emphasized the importance of educating all students to the highest level, regardless of the challenges the students, parents, or staff may face. |
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| Mr.
Joseph Dymek 9th Grade Administrator |
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Mr.
Joseph Dymek was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts and graduate degrees from the University of Maryland and Loyola College. In 1978, he began teaching horticulture at the Howard Vocational-Technical Center. In 1995, he was a guidance counselor at Burleigh Manor Middle School and was appointed Assistant Principal of Patuxent Valley Middle School in 2001. This is Mr. Dymek's second year as Assistant Principal at Hammond |
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| High School where his responsibilities include Ninth Grade Administrator and Special Education. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ms.
Nicole Harryman 12th Grade Administrator |
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Ms. Nicole Harryman has been an educator for thirty seven years. She was raised and educated in France, where she received a Master's Degree in French Linguistics from the Universite de Nancy. She also holds a Master's Degree in Administration and Supervision from Loyola College. Ms. Harryman has been an administrator for ten years. Prior to becoming an administrator, Ms. Harryman taught French, German and Latin in Baltimore City for eleven years. For sixteen years, she taught French and German at Mount Hebron High School in Howard County. Ms. Harryman's responsibilities include the supervision of the Art, English, Music and Social Studies departments, G&T Independent Research and working with new teachers. She is the administrator for Grade 10 and will work with that class through school year 2010. |
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| Mr.
Samuel Richman 11th Grade Administrator |
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Mr. Richman received
his bachelor's degree from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1989. He
then received a Masters from Towson State University in 1991. He began
teaching Math and Science at Deer Park Middle School in Baltimore County.
There, he served as academic team leader as well as math department chair.
He then worked as a teacher mentor in several other schools before becoming
an assistant principal at Randallstown High School. In 2003, Mr. Richman
decided to join his wife and
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for the Howard County Public School system. He worked at Oakland Mills High School teaching Math and Science, and worked a few days a month in the front office. He then came to Hammond High School as an Assistant Principal. Mr. Richman lives in Howard County with his wife and three children. |
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| Mr.
Martin Vandenberge 10th Grade Administrator |
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Mr.
Vandenberge is a graduate of Towson University and possesses a Master's
Degree is Human Resource Development. He taught Spanish levels I-IV at Parkville
Middle School and Catonsville High School in Baltimore County. Mr. Vandenberge
also served as Assistant Principal at New Town High School in Baltimore County before arriving at Hammond HS in 2006. He also coached for 14 years including stints at Mt. Hebron HS and CCBC-Catonsville. Mr.Vandenberge lives in Howard County with |
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his wife and two children. |
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