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Our Staff

 
Barbara F. Litinski, B.S., M.S.Ed, Ed.S.
George M. Litinski, Business Administrator
Founders
 
 
Principal: Dena Lee Phelps, B.A., M.S. Ed.
 
School Secretary: 
 
Teaching staff: 
 
Governing Board: 
 
Lawonna Jones Graduate of Glades Central; past director of a Head Start program in West Palm Beach, teacher at Treehouse Preschool in Belle Glade, parent and aunt of several Lakeside Academy students
 
 
 
Barbara F. Litinski

Ms. Barbara Litinski, Founder, past Principal, and Executive Director, is completing her 17th year as leader of the K-6 charter school. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from Fairleigh Dickinson University, a Master's Degree in Education from William Paterson University and a Sixth Year in Administration and Curriculum from the University of Connecticut, supplemented by additional coursework in administration. Mrs. Litinski holds a Pre K-8 teaching certificate and is certified for principal and supervision leadership. She is also has an ESOL endorsement.

 

Ms. Litinski taught primary grades two through five and middle school Language Arts and History for twenty-two years in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey before she became the Director of Curriculum and Instruction in that high performing district.  After moving to Florida, she developed curriculum for the Weiss School for the Gifted and was the Dean of General Studies at the Meyer Academy in West Palm Beach. Before coming to Lakeside Academy, Mrs. Litinski was the director at the private K-8 Progressive School in Palm Beach.

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