Meet the Student Services Team
Charity Shea was appointed as the Director of Student Services in August of 2022 after serving as the Assistant Director, then Director of Pupil Personnel Services in South Kingstown for three years. Before that, Mrs. Shea served the Portsmouth School Department from 2005 until 2019 as a special educator at the high school and special education coordinator at Portsmouth High School and Portsmouth Middle School. Additionally, she worked for the Chariho Regional School District in their behavior program, at Ocean Tides School in Narragansett, and in Florida, where she started her educational career at Herbert Hoover Middle School, teaching math to 7th and 8th graders.
Mrs. Shea earned a B.S. in Special Education from the University of Central Florida and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from Western Governors University.
Charity has been married to her husband Chris since 2006 and is the proud mother of Katelyn (PHS Class of 2013), Jarryd (PHS Class of 2016), Liam (RHS Class of 2023), and Kasper (a 9th grader at PHS).
Charity Shea
Director of Student Services
401-683-1039, ext. 1016
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Donna Garcia
Assistant to the Director of Student Services
401-683-1039, ext. 1016
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Kourtney Thiesse
Census/Statistical Clerk
401-683-1039, ext. 1014
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Lauren Buress
Child Outreach/Pre-K Coordinator
Melville Elementary School
401-683-1650
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Marc Gonsalves
Student Services Coordinator - Elementary
Hathaway and Melville Elementary Schools
401-683-0500 or 401-683-1650
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David Naff
Student Services Coordinator - Middle
Portsmouth Middle School
401-849-3700 or 401-683-2124
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Melissa Cimini
Student Services Coordinator - High
Portsmouth High School
401-683-2124
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