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Two Mountain View schools will have new principals this fall, with additional staffing changes at the Mountain View Whisman district office.
The Mountain View Whisman School District recently announced staffing changes at Graham Middle School and Castro Elementary School, as well as new hires for district-level administrators.
Sebastian Benavidez III will take over as principal at Graham in the fall, replacing Heidi Galassi, who is leaving at the end of the school year, according to a personnel report that the school board approved last week.
Benavidez comes to the district from Palo Alto, where he has served as the principal at Greene Middle School. He previously worked for 15 years in the Fresno Unified School District, according to a Mountain View Whisman press release.
Galassi has been Graham’s principal for three years and was previously principal at Landels Elementary School. Before Galassi took over at Graham, the school had seen three principals depart within a three year span.
Current Castro Principal Jackee Keirns will take over next school year as an assistant principal at Graham.
She has led Castro since 2022 and was previously an assistant principal at Crittenden Middle School.
Filling Keirns’ spot at the helm of Castro will be Scott Wilbur, who has been a principal in the Hollister School District since 2013, according to Mountain View Whisman.
Changes at the district office
On the district level, Karin Jinbo will be switching roles, going from the director of student support services and special education to the director of health and wellness.
The change is part of an effort to put more resources towards supporting students’ mental health.
Jinbo already served as director of health and wellness until 2022, when she added managing special education to her responsibilities.
In her new role, she’ll no longer be responsible for the special education department, which provides services for students with disabilities.
Frank Selvaggio will take over as director of special education, coming from the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District, where he has managed special education since 2017, according to Mountain View Whisman.
Also at the district office, Dalewyn Spinks has started as the assistant director for the maintenance, operations and transportation team.
Eduardo Rios Pacheco has also begun as the School community engagement facilitator/McKinney-Vento liaison, a role in which he works to support unhoused students and families, according to the district.