Cape hires new school administrator

CAPE ELIZABETH — Cape Elizabeth has hired Jane Golding, a Washington, D.C. educator and former director of instructional support in Yarmouth, as its new director of instructional support.

Golding will succeed Dominic DePatsy, instructional support director since 2006, who is leaving for the same position in Regional School Unit 5 in Freeport, Durham and Pownal.

Golding' nomination was approved by the School Board on June 14.

Golding has been the director of Targeted Student Support in the District of Columbia Public Schools in Washington, D.C. since 2009. For 10 years before then she was the director of instructional support in Yarmouth.

Golding was also assistant director of special services for Portland schools from 1988-1999; and, department chairwoman and a special-education teacher at Westbrook High School from 1976-1988. She has experience as an elementary school teacher, and taught reading to non-reading adults and to youth at the Maine Youth Center juvenile correctional facility.