LYNN-In her first week on the job, Superintendent Catherine Latham is already making good on a promise to try to bring in more minority teachers and administrators by supporting the district’s inclusion in the Transition to Teaching Program.In a letter to the School Committee handed out Thursday, Latham said she supported every effort to try to recruit new, qualified teachers, and looked forward to working with the state’s transition program.Transition to Teaching is a program run by the State Department of Elementary and Secondary Education that will help districts like Lynn recruit new teachers, including minority teachers, through a two-year instructional program for math and science teachers.Despite a 72 percent minority population in the district, the Lynn Public Schools have struggled to recruit minorities to teach in the classroom, something that has hurt the district on several levels, especially in dealing with limited English proficiency students and their families.Latham has vowed to explore ways to hire more qualified minorities at every level in the department, and will work with both the district and the state to try to improve teacher recruiting.”The Lynn Public Schools recognizes that hiring and supporting highly qualified teachers is critical to student success,” Latham wrote in a letter to the School committee. “We recognize that we will need to redesign our recruitment and hiring schedule to optimize our ability to hire the best possible teachers in a timely manner and are committed to do so. We welcome the opportunity to employ program participants when the Transition to Teaching Program commences.”The School Committee approved the appointment of Julie Louf of Peabody as vice principal at Breed Middle School Thursday night.Louf, a former special education teacher, will join Assistant Principal Kenneth Curtis and first-year Principal Fred Dupuis on the school’s administrative staff.”I want to thank the committee for this opportunity, and I look forward to working with (Dupuis) and all of the (School Committee) in the future,” she said during a brief introduction.Former Supervisor of Cafeterias Doris Kokinos has donated an automated defibrillator to Lynn Vocational and Technical Institute. The medical device, used to shock the heart in emergency situations, will be available to school medical and emergency staff in case of a health issue in the school or at school sporting events.”This is a very nice donation,” said Latham. “The chance of saving even one life with a defibrillator is immeasurable.”