Tamatha Bibbo, EdD

Currently Tamatha serves as the Principal of Pollard Middle School in Needham, MA. For the past 22 years she has worked at various levels, including a position as a high school ELA teacher at Franklin High School, assistant principal at Franklin High School and Needham High School, as the Director of Service Learning at the American School in London, and more recently as the principal at Pollard Middle School. During her time at Pollard she has implemented programs such as Launching Scholars, a program committed to improving math skills and competencies for traditionally marginalized populations of students; co taught grade 8 ELA and Launching Scholars Leaders, implemented STRETCH, an innovative program that allows access and opportunities for students to stretch their learning during the school day; served on the district/ community-wide REAL (Race, Equity, Access and Leadership) Team, Portrait of a Needham Graduate Committee, and SEL Committee. She has also been the instructor for the Needham Public Schools Mentoring Program. 

Tamatha completed her Doctorate of Education (EdD) through the Boston College PSAP program where her dissertation topic was: Critical Consciousness and Educational Leadership. She also holds her MEd in Secondary Education and English from Boston College, MEd from Framingham State College in Curriculum and Instruction, and a BA from Boston College in Political Science and English. Tamatha is certified in Massachusetts as a Superintendent/Assistant Superintendent, Principal and Assistant Principal (5-8 and 9-12), and ELA Teacher (9-12).  Her educational interests include: developing and fostering highly effective teams; constructing new teacher/ new administrator induction, mentoring, and retention programs; creating and supporting Service Learning programming; enhancing middle and high school level advisory programming; and expanding inclusivity, access, and opportunity to all students within communities. Tamatha has published the following articles: Service Learning: a community partnership approach (ISM and TIE), The future of the librarian as the metadata specialist (LMC), and Is PD a benefit to students? (PL). Her husband, Paul, and her 2 children are invested in their work with Bridge to Rwanda and currently serve as a foster family to a young man from Rwanda while he studies at Tufts University.