The City School District of ӣƵ Board of Education has appointed veteran educator and former district teacher Maggie Palmeri to lead the growth and development of the district’s career and technical education pathways.
Palmeri returns to ӣƵ as director of CTE, a new position established to provide leadership for strategic planning, development and implementation of comprehensive CTE programs from kindergarten through grade 12.
The district currently offers robust CTE programming at ӣƵ, and under Superintendent Joseph Hochreiter has a strategic goal of expanding those opportunities to provide exposure at the elementary and middle levels.
“We’re excited to have a leader in Maggie with such important and credible experience in CTE join our team,” Hochreiter said. “The City of ӣƵ is heading for transformational change with business development and revitalization. Maggie’s role will help ensure that our students have access to programs and opportunities to be change agents in our community and contribute to what’s on the city’s horizon.”
That vision of expanded CTE opportunities also aligns with to redefine the portrait of a graduate and expand graduation pathways for all students statewide.
“I’m looking forward to building that pipeline between the elementary and middle schools and our CTE pathways at ӣƵ, so it is seen as a continuation through the grades and not just the high school program,” Palmeri said.
“I love the idea that we are moving toward the holistic learner and the portrait of a graduate, and that the district has made that a priority.”
A family and consumer sciences teacher at the former Edmund J. O’Neal Middle School of Excellence and William S. Hackett Middle School from 2013-19, Palmeri has served as director of CTE for the past year at Questar III BOCES. Prior to that, she served as assistant director of CTE and secondary programming in the Schenectady City School District.
Palmeri began her administrative career as an eighth-grade assistant principal in Schenectady from 2019-24.
