The Verona Board of Education approved her hiring Monday night. Cresskill is a smaller district than Verona, but it falls within our state schools peer group and the Verona BOE frequently uses its statistics on academic achievement in comparisons with Verona.
DiGiacomo succeeds Frank Albano, who had been the principal of Laning since 2000. Her hiring also comes with departure of an even longer serving Laning educator, first grade teacher Marilyn Varallo. No replacement for Varallo has been chosen yet.
According to the Cresskill Board of Education’s Web site, DiGiacomo came to that district only last year. Before that, she had worked for the Tenafly Public School District from 2006 to 2011 in a variety of curriculum development rolls, and from 2009 to 2011, as a K-8 literacy coach swell.
She got her start in teaching in Livingston, where she taught elementary school from 1992 to 2009. According to her Cresskill biography, DiGiacomo has two masters degrees, one in reading and the other in administration.
“I am really excited about joining the Verona School District as an elementary principal,” says DiGiacomo, “and am eager to meet the Laning family.”
