Dr. Larry Dake joins the Binghamton City School District as Assistant Superintendent of Instruction and Budget. He is currently beginning his seventeenth year in education, and his eleventh as an administrator. Throughout those years, Dr. Dake has served as a classroom teacher, curriculum and data coordinator, building principal, and Assistant Superintendent. Dr. Dake is originally from Walton, NY, and graduated from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. His career in education began right here in the BCSD, student teaching at West Middle School, and Binghamton High School while finishing his education degree at Binghamton University. He then taught Social Studies at Vestal High School, focusing mainly on Advanced Placement United States History and Global Studies.

In August 2010, he was hired as a Coordinator of Instruction in Vestal and focused on Race to the Top implementation around standards, curriculum, assessment, data analysis, and professional development. During this time, he also became a nationally certified bully prevention trainer and trained several schools in Olweus both within and outside the Southern Tier. Dr. Dake participated in the Broome Leadership Institute in 2011-2012 and also the Superintendent’s Development Program in 2013.

In July 2013, he was hired at Union-Endicott as George F. Johnson Elementary School Principal, a 650-student K-5 building in Endwell. After three years in that position, Dr. Dake assumed the Assistant Superintendent for Personnel and Secondary Education role in Union-Endicott, where he served for four years overseeing labor relations, contract negotiations, and three secondary buildings encompassing 2,300 students in grades 6-12.

The opportunity to return to Binghamton, where he got his start as a student teacher, was too good to pass up. Dr. Dake is excited to work with the district’s outstanding leadership team and first-rate teacher and school-related professional staff. In his free time, Dr. Dake serves on the Board of Directors for the Broome County Arts Council and the Greater Binghamton Educational Opportunity Program (GBEOP). For the past four years, he has also served as an Adjunct Professor in the Binghamton University Educational Leadership Program.

Dr. Dove first worked with BCSD as a Race to the Top Administrator at BT BOCES before serving as the Director of Literacy & Humanities, Early Childhood-Grade 12 for 10 years working in all 10 buildings with all teachers and administrators. In this role, she led curriculum, assessment, and instruction for ELA, SS across the district and facilitated various committee work and professional development for teachers in grades Pre-K-12. Dr. Dove was also responsible for the Title III grant for ENL students, ENL registration and instruction, and all required ENL testing. Another important role she had was supporting the PACT program that services families with children from birth to five years old helping families gain the services and knowledge needed to help their children be successful in school and life.

Before coming to BT BOCES and BCSD, Dr. Dove was the Director of Teaching, Learning, & Technology serving in an Assistant Superintendent capacity for the Groton Central School District for five years. In this position, she served as the Curriculum Coordinator, the Data Administrator, and the Technology Director. In these roles, she was responsible for overseeing the following budget lines: federal textbook money, software and hardware money, and the technology and professional development lines in the general budget. As the District Title Coordinator, she was responsible for Title I,II, IV, and VI grant applications, budgets, and reporting. She also wrote and received a $500,000 RTI grant and served as the Grant Coordinator for the elementary building which included designing the RTI plan and coordinating the delivery of RTI services in ELA and Mathematics.  

After teaching 8th and 9th grade English for five years in the Spencer-Van Etten School District, she became an instructional coach and served in this capacity for five years before working at BT BOCES as a professional development specialist in literacy and instructional strategies while leading the BOCES Mentoring Program, Content Area Teams, the Professional Development Committee, and the Annual Professional Performance Review Committee.

Dr. Dove received her bachelor’s degree from SUNY Geneseo in Secondary English in 1993, her master’s degree from SUNY Binghamton in English Education in 1996, and her Doctorate in Leadership and Learning Theory from Andrews University in 2003.

With 16 years as an administrator and 29 total years in education, Dr. Dove brings a wealth of experience both in the classroom and at the district level from a variety of districts and BOCES experiences. Dr. Dove has completely fallen in love with BCSD and is proud to say she works with an incredibly supportive, talented, and committed group of teachers, administrators, and other staff members of the Binghamton City School District.

Eric Wilson is the Executive Director of Human Resources and Operations. Wilson has extensive experience in school district administration and School Law. He was the In-House council for Syracuse City School District, Director of Personnel and Labor Relations for the Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES, a partner at Ferrara Fiorenza, P.C., and most recently the Director of Staff Relations/School Attorney for Baldwinsville Central School District. Wilson has a B.A. from Marist College and a J.D. from Albany Law School of Union University.

Dawne Anna-Adams is the BCSD director of personnel.
She joined the Binghamton City Schools in 2014 as the P-TECH Coordinator, overseeing the New York State grant that provides pathways for STEM careers for students in schools across the region. She then transitioned from that position to the Department Chair for Science and Technology for grades 6-12. In 2018, she became the associate principal at Binghamton High School. During the 2019-2020 school year, she served as principal of the Fallsburg Junior-Senior High School in Sullivan County, New York.