The City School District of Albany Board of Education approved the appointment of Meghan D’Alessandro as the next principal at Pine Hills Elementary School at its meeting Wednesday.
A former sixth-grade ELA teacher at William S. Hackett Middle School, D’Alessandro has been the assistant principal at Thomas O’Brien Academy of Science and Technology since 2021. In that role, she has helped lead a building-wide effort that has seen strong gains in student achievement since returning from the pandemic.
D’Alessandro will join Assistant Principal Allisen Brodie on the administrative team at Pine Hills and will replace Tia Corniel, who departed recently for a position in another school district. D’Alessandro will begin in her new role Jan. 1.
“I am excited for this new opportunity and looking forward to joining the Pine Hills community,” D’Alessandro. “Pine Hills is a tight-knit community and I can’t wait to be a part of it.”
D’Alessandro earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and middle school social studies from Russell Sage College, and a master’s in adolescent literacy from Sage Graduate School. She also holds school building leader certification from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
