The school is administered by our Principal and an all-volunteer School Committee, supported by a school administrator. All of these positions are supported by parent volunteers working on various committees.

Principal

Claudia Bonmassar, our Principal, brings with her almost 20 years of teaching experience, along with advanced education degrees from Tufts University and Innsbruck University, Austria. Claudia is well-versed in the program and culture of the German Saturday School: After joining our faculty in 1992 and leading a classroom for 10 years, she was promoted to Head Teacher and then took on her current role as Principal. Claudia, a native Austrian, has a solid background in foreign language instruction. She has taught middle school, high school, university, and adult education classes in Austria, France, and in the Boston area. As an administrator both in Europe and the U.S. she has coordinated study tours, facilitated guest speakers, organized teacher workshops, and served as a university supervisor, managing and evaluating student teachers. As an educator and mother of two children, Claudia has chosen this path because she truly appreciates the German Saturday School as a place for people to stay connected. According to Claudia, "The German Saturday School is a place for students and their families to stay connected to their heritage, but also opens the door to families for whom German is a new and exciting adventure. Our challenge is to provide every single student with the appropriate tools to achieve our main goal: the ability to actively communicate in German."

Claudia can be reached at principal@germansaturdayschoolboston.org

Administrative Manager

Heike Hrinishin joined our team in August 2006 as School Administrator. She is familiar with the school as both a parent and a team leader in our school library, where she has volunteered for the past five years. As a native German with an education as a foreign language correspondent and translator, as well as administrative experience in Germany and the U.S., Heike is well-suited for her new role at the German Saturday School Boston. On a more personal note, like many families at our school, she has been raising her three children bilingually. The German Saturday School has become a part of Heike’s life, and she is “looking forward to making everyone’s school experience happy and successful”.

Heike can be reached at +1 617 201 9561 on the school phone or info@germansaturdayschoolboston.org