News Release

LARWILL – Several new hires were approved by Whitko School Board members at the Monday, June 19 regular meeting.

New hires included: Kari Walmer, special education director; Jamie Paino, director of alternative programs; Christy Haupert, Pierceton Elementary School principal; Caleb Logan, second WJSHS assistant principal; and Katherine Sullivan and Emily Bent, speech language pathologists.

Kari Walmer, the new special education director was the special services coordinator for Warsaw Community
Schools for nearly a decade.

She also was a special education teacher at Wawasee Middle School and Fairfield Community Schools.

She received her master’s degree from Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree from Grace College.

Walmer and her family live in Warsaw.

Jamie Paino is the district’s new director of alternative programs and continues as Whitko’s Little Cats Early Learning Center
director.

She was an Edmentum virtual teacher for second and third graders and a Warsaw Community Schools’ teacher at
Claypool and Harrison elementary schools for 11 years.

She is completing requirements for a master’s degree in educational supervision with a PK-12 administrative license at Ball State University, has an applied neuroscience certification from Butler University and a bachelor’s degree from Ball State University.

Piano and her family live in Warsaw.

Christy Haupert is the Pierceton Elementary School principal.

Haupert comes to Whitko from Plymouth Community Schools where she was an elementary school principal.

She has an administrator’s license and master’s degree from Indiana Wesleyan University and a bachelor’s degree from Ball State University.

Haupert and her family live in Goshen.

Caleb Logan is the second assistant principal at Whitko Junior Senior High School, joining principal Amy Evans and assistant
principal JD Maurer.

Logan was an alternative education lead teacher for West Noble High School and an English and business
teacher at Westview Junior Senior High School.

He has a master’s degree from Western Governors University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Indianapolis.

He and his family live in Syracuse.

Emily Bent and Kate Sullivan will provide in-person speech language sessions to Whitko students during the 2023-24 school
year, a welcome change from the virtual class offerings of the last few semesters.

Bent comes to Whitko from Anderson Community Schools where she was a speech language pathologist.

She has a master’s and a bachelor’s degree from Ball State University.

She lives in Warsaw.

Sullivan has a master’s and a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University.

She’s worked for Hand In Hand Comprehensive Therapy Specialists, Little Praisers Preschool and Childcare and Sylvan Learning Center.

She lives in Fort Wayne.

For more information about Whitko Community Schools or to tour any of our buildings, call the Central Office at
(260) 327-3677.