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Princeton Day School Names New Head of the Upper School for the 2013-2014 School Year

Jason Robinson is appointed new Head of the Upper School at Princeton Day School for the 20-13-2014 academic year.

JASON ROBINSON Hails from the Lawrenceville School and Will Begin at PDS on July 1, 2013

Princeton – Princeton Day School is pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Robinson as Head of the Upper School, beginning in the next academic year, 2013-2014.

Mr. Robinson is currently at the Lawrenceville School, serving as the Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Director of the Capstone Program, Chair of the Discipline Committee and Honor Council, and Chair of the Academic Integrity Committee, as well as Housemaster of Stephens House, and a teacher in with courses in government, ethics, constitutional law, and history. Prior to his tenure at the Lawrenceville School beginning in 2007, Mr. Robinson taught at the Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, and was Chair of the Honor Council, in addition to coaching basketball and baseball and advising the school newspaper.

Before his teaching career, Mr. Robinson was an attorney at Covington and Burling/Ross, Dixon & Bell in Washington, DC, specializing in labor and employment disputes.

A Virginia native, Mr. Robinson attended North Cross School in Roanoke and matriculated at Washington and Lee University, from which he graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.  He went on to earn an M.A. in government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia and, three years later, a J.D. at Stanford University Law School.                                                                                                           

In announcing the news, Head of School Paul Stellato remarked, “Mr. Robinson is a gifted classroom teacher and thoughtful, accomplished school leader, and we are very pleased to welcome him to Princeton Day School.”

Mr. Stellato went on, “I’d also like to recognize and thank Upper School Head Carlton Tucker. In his 20 years at Princeton Day School, Mr. Tucker has built an Upper School that stands among the finest of its kind in the community of independent schools. Given his legacy of leadership, it was no surprise that more than 80 school leaders from the most vital independent boarding and day schools in the country – and across the globe – sought this position.”