(Salem, Ore.) The Oregon Association of Secondary School Administrators (OASSA) and the Coalition of Oregon School Administrators (COSA) have named Jessica Smith, West Albany High School Assistant Principal in Greater Albany Public  Schools, the 2023 Oregon Assistant Principal of the Year.

COSA is adding two new staff members to its professional team for the 2022-23 school year.

Shelly Reggiani, who currently serves as Director of Equity, Community Engagement and Communications in the North Clackamas School District, has been selected as COSA’s new Senior Director of Learning, Equity and Communications.  Carmen Gelman, currently Principal at Milwaukie High School and Milwaukie Academy of the Arts, has been selected as COSA’s new Director of Professional Learning.  Gelman and Reggiani will begin work at COSA on July 1.

SALEM, Ore. – Charlie Jett, Principal of Two Rivers Dos Rios Elementary School in the Springfield School District, has been named Oregon’s 2022 National Distinguished Principal, also known as Oregon Elementary Principal of the Year.  Jett was selected by his peers in the Oregon Elementary School Principals Association (OESPA).

COSA members elected LaShawanta Spears, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the David Douglas School District, as COSA President-Elect for 2022-23, during balloting conducted last month.  Spears will serve as COSA President in the 2023-24 school year, succeeding Cascade Superintendent Darin Drill, who will serve as COSA President in 2022-23.  

Other members elected to serve in key COSA leadership roles beginning July 1 are:

OASE
President-Elect
*Sue Rieke-Smith, Tigard-Tualatin SD