{"id":4507,"date":"2025-10-16T19:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4507\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:13:07","slug":"bethlehem-area-school-district-taps-a-former-superintendent-to-lead-student-support-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4507\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Area School District taps a former superintendent to lead student support services"},"content":{"rendered":"

BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Bethlehem Area School District has hired a former superintendent to serve as its new chief pupil services officer.<\/p>\n

In her new role, Jodi Frankelli, a former chief of schools for Palmerton Area School District in Carbon County, will oversee BASD\u2019s student support services. <\/p>\n

Those include special education, counseling, psychology, health, social work and student discipline, according to a news release.<\/p>\n

Frankelli will ensure the services are aligned to district goals and state regulations.<\/p>\n

Frankelli officially will start in BASD in November at a salary of $172,500. She was granted a five-year contract.<\/p>\n

Frankelli is currently serving as Allentown School District\u2019s executive director of early learning. She started in that role in May of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She came to ASD after serving as Palmerton Area\u2019s superintendent from 2020 to 2024.<\/p>\n

\"Jodi<\/p>\n

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Bethlehem Area School District<\/p>\n

Jodi Frankelli will be Bethlehem Area’s new chief pupil services officer, starting in November. <\/p>\n

Previously, Frankelli also held positions in BASD, including as supervisor of early learning, grants and development and principal of Governor Wolf Elementary School.<\/p>\n

Frankelli has a doctorate degree in education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master\u2019s degree in education from East Stroudsburg University. She received a bachelor\u2019s degree in education from Shippensburg University.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to have Dr. Frankelli rejoin the BASD team,\u201d Bethlehem Area Superintendent Jack Silva said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer deep understanding of student needs and her leadership experience will be a tremendous asset to our school district.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Bethlehem Area School District has hired a former superintendent to serve as its new chief…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,1412,4116,4117,155,154,4118,4119,4120,4121],"class_list":["post-4507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-area-school-district","tag-bethlehem-area-school-district-student-support-officer","tag-bethlehem-area-school-district-student-support-services-officer","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-superintendent","tag-jodi-frankelli","tag-jodi-frankelli-bethlehem","tag-student-support-services-officer-basd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}