Frederick announces her resignation

Sue Frederick, who has served as principal of the Hildreth Elementary School since September 2014, announced in an email Friday that she will be resigning effective June 30. Frederick said she had been offered a new three-year contract at HES but had decided to leave at the end of her current one.

“I have enjoyed my time at Hildreth and have been honored to work with your children and watch them grow as learners and young people over the past three years,” Frederick wrote in her email to Hildreth families. “The commitment to education that is embraced by this community is impressive.”

Frederick has been deeply involved in the plans for renovations at the elementary school for the past year. She took an active part in a meeting of the School Building Committee with the project architects Friday afternoon, even as the letter announcing her departure went out to the community.

Before coming to Harvard, Frederick was principal of the Elmwood Elementary School in Millbury, a position she held for six years. Previously she had served for four years as a vice principal and then a principal in Holyoke and six years as a school psychologist in Pittsfield.