Principal, Malcom E. Nettingham Middle School
Rutgers University
Jocelyn Dumaresq is a former middle school English teacher who began her educational leadership journey as the Supervisor of English Language Arts in Scotch Plains-Fanwood New Jersey. Dumaresq was named principal of Park Middle School, now renamed Malcom E. Nettingham Middle School (in honor of a local hero who was a member of World War II’s celebrated Tuskegee Airmen and a 1936 graduate of the district’s high school), in 2016, a position in which she currently serves.
Dumaresq received her B.A. in Secondary Education and English from Seton Hall University, where she was an Academic All-America soccer player. In 2000, she received the John Travers Award honoring the top student-athletes from Central Pennsylvania. Dumaresq earned her master’s in Teaching of English and Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University, and her doctorate in Educational Leadership from Rutgers University. Her dissertation, "Leading From the Closet: Toward a New Theory of Educational Leadership," explored the intersection of leadership and sexuality in superintendents and assistant superintendents in the LGBTQ+ community.
When she is not supervising lunches or observing teachers, Dumaresq guest lectures at Rutgers and runs her middle school's "Safe Space" club for LGBTQ+ youth.
Saturday, February 25, 2023
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM East Coast USA Time