Colton School District recently announced the appointment of Dr. Shane M. Bassett as the incoming principal of Colton High School.
Dr. Bassett was born and raised in Massachusetts but has called the Portland area home for the past 31 years. He earned his Bachelor’s in elementary education and social studies from Concordia University, a Master’s in curriculum and instruction from the University of Portland, and a Doctorate in educational leadership from George Fox University.
He will bring 27 years of experience in education as a teacher, reading coach, principal, and K-12 director of federal programs to his work at Colton High School. Most recently, he worked for four years as the middle school principal of a United States Embassy-affiliated international school in South America.
|In this role, he served for one year as a mentor for the new high school principal, and as the high school’s substitute principal. Dr. Bassett is married, has three children, and said he is excited to reunite with his extended family when he returns home to Gresham.