{"id":1340,"date":"2022-06-08T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2022-06-08T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:48:17","slug":"melinda-massaglia-announced-as-lindens-new-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/2022\/06\/08\/melinda-massaglia-announced-as-lindens-new-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"Melinda Massaglia Announced as Linden&#8217;s New Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, June 7, Oak Ridge Schools Superintendent Dr. Bruce Borchers announced that Mrs. Melinda Massaglia has been selected to serve as the new principal of Linden Elementary School. <\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Massaglia holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tusculum College and a Master\u2019s degree in Educational Leadership from Carson Newman University.  She has been an educator for 12 years, serving as a fourth grade teacher at Shannondale Elementary School for four years, as an assistant principal and then principal at A.L. Lotts Elementary School (2015-2021) and as principal at Cedar Bluff Elementary School (2021-2022).  <\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Massagia states, \u201cI am honored to serve my Linden Elementary families as Principal and look forward to making this a great school year. I am confident that together the staff and I will continue to provide our students with a nurturing and engaging school experience. I feel very fortunate to be expanding my role to support Linden Elementary, and I am proud to be part of the Oak Ridge community.  As a parent and an educator, I know that elementary school years are important and critical times for our students. What happens during these years will have a lasting impression on their growth and development. I am looking forward to meeting the students and community members as we embark upon the 2022-2023 school year.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/06\/M_Massaglia.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"193\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orschools.wpenginepowered.com\/linden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/06\/M_Massaglia-200x166.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/orschools.wpenginepowered.com\/linden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/06\/M_Massaglia.jpeg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, June 7, Oak Ridge Schools Superintendent Dr. Bruce Borchers announced that Mrs. Melinda Massaglia has been selected to serve as the new principal of Linden Elementary School. Mrs. Massaglia holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tusculum College and a Master\u2019s degree in Educational Leadership from Carson Newman University. She has been an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ortn.edu\/linden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}