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New Principals Face County Schools' Challenges
Woodlin Elementary School Principal Sarah Sirgo visits Michele Carter's third-grade class and chats with students.
(By Katherine Frey -- The Washington Post)
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Q: Why are you an educator?
A: The short answer is sixth-grade peer pressure. As a junior at American University, I was involved in a community service project where I tutored math every Wednesday at Lincoln Junior High School in Washington. At the end of the semester, when I was leaving, I told the class that I would visit in the second semester. From the back of the room, a sixth-grade student with whom I had worked closely announced to the whole class, "Yeah, right. We'll never see him again." I ended up going back every Wednesday for the second semester -- just to prove him wrong. I doubt that young man ever knew how much of an influence he had on my life.
Is it hard to supervise older or more experienced educators?
When I first came back to Walter Johnson as the acting principal, I realized that some of the staff had been present when I student-taught here. I imagined them thinking, 'We used to kick this kid out of the staff bathroom, and now he is our principal.' Largely, it was in my head.
Audra Fladung Stonegate Elementary School Silver Spring
¿ Age: 35.
¿ Hometown: Landover Hills.
¿ Education: BA, University of Maryland; MA, Bowie State University; post-master's certification, Towson University.
¿ Background: third-grade teacher, staff development teacher, literacy specialist, assistant principal; five schools. Started in Montgomery in 1995.
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