Staples Assistant Principal Heads Home: Meghan Ward Announced as New Principal in Redding; Leaving Westport.

Announced tonight by the Redding Board of Education Chair Chris Parkin, Staples High School Assistant Principal Meghan Ward will serve as Principal of John Read Middle School starting July 1st - leaving another administration position open for the Westport Public Schools.

The new position will serve as a coming-home of sorts for the administrator, who is an alumna of Redding & Easton’s Joel Barlow Regional High School. Ward taught in the Social Studies Department at Staples High School from 2004 until 2009, and after a short stint in Maine, returned to Westport and Staples as Assistant Principal in 2016.