Woodhull Administration
Principal
Woodhull Intermediate School Principal Mary Stokkers began her career in September 1975 at the James E. Allen School where she worked as a special education teacher for 4 ½ years. She later moved on to the Cold Spring Harbor school district and was an elementary grade level resource room teacher for seven years.
Ms. Stokkers completed a sixth month school counselor internship in Huntington before assuming the position of Huntington Intermediate School dean of students in September 1996, serving for five years before being named principal in 2001. She became principal of Woodhull School following a reconfiguration of the district's elementary grades in July 2010.
A graduate of Cold Spring Harbor High School, Ms. Stokkers obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education at the University of South Florida in 1974. She earned a Master of Arts in special education in 1979 at Long Island University – C.W. Post, where she also received her state certifications as a school counselor and as an administrator in 1996 and 2000, respectively.
During her time in Huntington, Ms. Stokkers has served on numerous school and district committees and been active as a peer mediator trainer, Huntington Intermediate student leadership organization and newspaper advisor, facilitator for A World of Difference and member of the Drug Free Schools committee and Violence Prevention Task Force, among other initiatives.
Assistant Principal
Jarrett P. Stein has been assistant principal of Woodhull Intermediate School since July 2011. He served as district director of school safety and alternative educational programs during the 2010/11 school year and was acting principal of Woodhull in 2009/10. He was previously an assistant principal of Huntington High School for nine years.
Prior to coming to the district, Mr. Stein worked as an administrative assistant in the Hicksville school district, as a school psychologist in the Massapequa and Sachem school districts and in the BOCES system, as a teacher assistant in Massapequa, Commack, Half Hollow Hills and BOCES and as a group leader and director of several summer camps. He has also served as the Amagansett school district's director of student support services.
Mr. Stein earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University and obtained a Master of Science degree in school psychology at Long Island University's Brooklyn campus in 1996. He studied for his state administrative certification at Dowling College.
At Huntington High School, Mr. Stein created and supervised a freshman turn-around program for general education students. He was a Western Suffolk BOCES regional summer school principal from 2004 through 2009
A contributing writer to the book, The Circle of Character and Conduct, Mr. Stein won the New Jersey Pitcher of the Year Award and earned a New Jersey Metropolitan Athletic Award. He completed his school psychologist practicum in Massapequa.