FARMINGTON – The principal of Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School is to be nominated as principal of Mt. Blue High School on Tuesday.
SAD 9 Superintendent Michael Cormier said he will nominate Joe Moore of Monmouth for the position. He has been the principal of the Oxford Hills school for the last five years.
The SAD 9 board meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the Mt. Blue High School library.
Moore was one of 16 candidates vying for the job to replace Greg Potter, who has taken a job as superintendent of Union 133 in the Windsor area as of July 1.
“I think he is an excellent candidate,” Cormier said Monday.
He administers a school that has about 300 students more than Mt. Blue and has a vocational school in a structure similar to the Mt. Blue High School and Foster Regional Applied Technology Center, Cormier said.
Those on the interview committees were impressed with the work Moore has done with students, faculty and parents, Cormier said, and the ways he has found to involve students at that level.
“I’m quite excited,” Moore said Monday afternoon.
This is a unique opportunity to work with a staff and community that already has partnerships established, Moore said, citing the University of Maine at Farmington, the Franklin Memorial Hospital and other partners.
Moore has served in various positions in SAD 17 in the South Paris area for 16 years. Besides being principal of the high school, he has also served as assistant superintendent, and as principal and assistant principal at the middle school.
Moore also served as principal of Sabattus Elementary School, in Litchfield schools, and as an assistant principal and teacher at St. Dominic Regional High School in Lewiston.
“I’ve kind of seen it all K to adult,” Moore said, because he has also taught adult education in Lewiston.
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