LYNN – Lynn Public Schools (LPS) has announced that Tim Moriarty will be Breed Middle School’s interim principal.
Moriarty has been a proud educator for 16 years. He taught high school math for six years, serving as math department head for three of those years. He then spent four years as the Academic Director of the Pathfinder Regional School District, establishing the district’s advanced placement program and collaborating with staff and students to help raise the district’s accountability status 11 percentile points during his tenure.
While attending his doctoral program, he worked for two years as special advisor to the senior associate commissioner for educational options at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Moriarty has also delivered equity-focused professional development to teachers, principals, and aspiring educators in California and Texas as the co-founder of a consulting group. He has sat on the board of a national career and technical education leadership organization for eight years.
These past four years, Moriarty has served LPS as an assistant principal at Lynn Tech. During this time, he has collaborated with the other assistance principals and staff to implement an accountability system based on employability and professionalism that leans into restorative practices.
He led a team of school and district staff to redesign the school’s admissions policy to be more equitable for applicants in alignment with state regulations, and he collaborated with school and state leaders to obtain grant funding and receive state approval of new technical programs.
Moriarty helped establish the school’s first professional learning community model across core academics, and he teamed up with department heads this past year to lead Tech’s project-based learning pilot.
Moriarty believes education transforms lives and should be joyous and relevant in an environment of high expectations and high support. He espouses servant, distributive, data-informed, and student-centered leadership, and these principles drive his focus of ensuring high-quality, equitable opportunities for all learners to succeed and achieve their desired career and lifestyle goals.
Moriarty holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a Master of Education degree in school administration from American International College, and a Doctor of Education Leadership degree from Harvard University.
