Spaulding Academy & Family Services makes two leadership role changes

In her new role, she continues to ensure program fidelity and service delivery as the organization continues expanding. All family service departments work cohesively to provide a seamless exchange of information for children and families and enable greater efficiencies within the organization. Champagne’s effective leadership skills have led to achieving more proactive, engaged and successful support for the children while expanding services and continuing to put families first.

Since joining Spaulding School in 2014, Suter has successfully filled several roles, including paraeducator, associate teacher, long-term substitute classroom teacher, digital learning specialist, and then technology and innovation coordinator.

In his new role, Suter's participation in campus-wide and interdepartmental initiatives expands significantly. He looks forward to helping Spaulding School become a leader in developing thoughtful and safe artificial intelligence workflows in certain areas. He’ll also help increase the use of virtual reality beyond individual student needs to full-class use and staff training, particularly as an autism-focused teaching and learning tool.

With the newly opened innovation lab, Suter is collaborating with academy leadership as well as occupational and physical therapists to ensure this space is designed with inclusion in mind to accommodate all Spaulding students. The space will serve as a place for students to explore new skills, create in a multimodal way and push boundaries of their capabilities. He continues working with all departments to create engaging video and virtual content for students, families and employees for highlighting the school, reaching a broader audience and onboarding. Suter is also the EHR Database administrator, working with departments across campus to better harness Spaulding data to inform decision making.