Casey Chabola Hired As Linwood E. Howe Elementary Principal

Los Angeles CA

02 July, 2020

5:27 PM

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Press release from the Culver City Unified School District: July 2, 2020 The Culver City Unified School District has offered Casey Chabola the position of Principal of Linwood E. Howe Elementary School, pending Board of Education confirmation at its June 23 meeting. Chabola has served as Linwood E. Howe's interim principal for the past five months. A product of CCUSD schools, he was hired by the District in 1997 and has taught elementary school and has been an Administrative Designee since 2013. Chabola has also served as Linwood E. Howe's Title 1 and School Improvement Coordinator, a member of the teacher's union negotiation team, a member of CCUSD's Certificated Advisory Council, and the school's lead teacher for the High-Performance Learning Consortium. He is also a member of CCUSD's reopening task force and a member of the WASC Evaluations Committee and has earned the PTA's Honorary Service Award three times. In addition, Chabola is steeped in the rich athletic tradition of CCUSD. In 2000, he co-founded the Culver City High School boy's lacrosse team with his father, former CCHS athletic Director Jerry Chabola, and former Culver City Mayor David Hauptman; and has served as head coach of the team ever since. Chabola has earned Ocean League Coach of the Year honors three times and has been both an AYSO soccer volunteer coach and a Culver City Little League softball coach. Chabola earned a bachelor's degree in Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, with an emphasis in Sports Management, from St. Mary's College of California. He earned a master's degree in Education (Multiple Subject Teaching Credential) from Loyola Marymount University and a second master's degree in Education Administration from Concordia University. He lives in Culver City with his wife, Kim, and his three children: Kayla, 21, who currently attends University of Colorado, Boulder; Sierra, 18, this year's CCHS Athlete of the Year who will attend San Diego State University in the fall; and Joey, who is a member of the CCHS Class of2022. This press release was produced by Culver City Unified School District. The views expressed here are the author's own.