New DCPS Principals

[Anonymous]

DCPS has started announcing new principals. As expected, Carrie Broquard is going to Miner. A former Miner principal, Bruce Jackson, is taking over at Amidon-Bowen.

https://dcps.dc.gov/page/principal-announcements-school-year-2024-2025

Carolina Brito
Oyster-Adams Bilingual School

Carrie Broquard
Miner Elementary School

Brandon Eatman
Eaton Elementary School

Bruce Jackson
Amidon-Bowen Elementary School

Katie Prall
Lafayette Elementary School

Amanda Schmitt
Wheatley Education Campus

Kenneth Walker
Anacostia High School

[Anonymous]

Eatman just keeps falling up - unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Is Carolina Brito a relative of Katarina Brito?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know when the transition happens? Ready for our new principal to start since the old one has been pretty checked out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eatman just keeps falling up - unbelievable.

I definitely recognize his name. What's the deal?

But yeah, I've been teaching in DCPS a decade and they love promoting mediocre men into leadership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know when the transition happens? Ready for our new principal to start since the old one has been pretty checked out.

July 1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eatman just keeps falling up - unbelievable.

Eatman has been a balm to the Eaton community this year after what we went through last year. The teachers are very happy he’s staying. So I guess there’s a lid for every pot!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS has started announcing new principals. As expected, Carrie Broquard is going to Miner. A former Miner principal, Bruce Jackson, is taking over at Amidon-Bowen.

https://dcps.dc.gov/page/principal-announcements-school-year-2024-2025

Carolina Brito
Oyster-Adams Bilingual School

Carrie Broquard
Miner Elementary School

Brandon Eatman
Eaton Elementary School

Bruce Jackson
Amidon-Bowen Elementary School

Katie Prall
Lafayette Elementary School

Amanda Schmitt
Wheatley Education Campus

Kenneth Walker
Anacostia High School

Wait, woah… Bruce Jackson was the last good principal Miner ever had. Then he left DC, Miner went into a tailspin and now he’s back at Amidon-Bowen without even a mention of Miner in his DCPS bio??? So weird.

[Anonymous]

Did you read the second sentence???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS has started announcing new principals. As expected, Carrie Broquard is going to Miner. A former Miner principal, Bruce Jackson, is taking over at Amidon-Bowen.

https://dcps.dc.gov/page/principal-announcements-school-year-2024-2025

Carolina Brito
Oyster-Adams Bilingual School

Carrie Broquard
Miner Elementary School

Brandon Eatman
Eaton Elementary School

Bruce Jackson
Amidon-Bowen Elementary School

Katie Prall
Lafayette Elementary School

Amanda Schmitt
Wheatley Education Campus

Kenneth Walker
Anacostia High School

Wait, woah… Bruce Jackson was the last good principal Miner ever had. Then he left DC, Miner went into a tailspin and now he’s back at Amidon-Bowen without even a mention of Miner in his DCPS bio??? So weird.

Friend, slow down and read that again.

[Anonymous]

They should have just put Bruce Jackson back at Miner and put Katie Mustian Prall at Amidon-Bowen. That would have made the most sense. They could have just put Carrie at Oyster-Adam’s.

[Anonymous]

I hope Jackson didn't write his own bio... it's full of typos. With that said, I hope he is successful at Amidon-Bowen. It won't be easy to come in with a pending renovation, the newly built day care center (so foolish not to coordinate but that's dcps/dgs for you!) a very economically and racially diverse community, the departure of some very long-tenured staff, and a previous principal who was there for 8 years and thus is the only principal any parents or students are likely to have known.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They should have just put Bruce Jackson back at Miner and put Katie Mustian Prall at Amidon-Bowen. That would have made the most sense. They could have just put Carrie at Oyster-Adam’s.

Moving Carrie Broquard to Oyster-Adams would have been great. That new Brito woman would have excelled at Lafayette. It’s sad that they’re setting this Brito woman to fail at Oyster-Adams. Oyster is a very challenging school for anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope Jackson didn't write his own bio... it's full of typos. With that said, I hope he is successful at Amidon-Bowen. It won't be easy to come in with a pending renovation, the newly built day care center (so foolish not to coordinate but that's dcps/dgs for you!) a very economically and racially diverse community, the departure of some very long-tenured staff, and a previous principal who was there for 8 years and thus is the only principal any parents or students are likely to have known.

The optics look really bad for them to move a white man into a predominately black school to lead. They should have chosen a black man or a black woman to lead Amidon-Bowen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope Jackson didn't write his own bio... it's full of typos. With that said, I hope he is successful at Amidon-Bowen. It won't be easy to come in with a pending renovation, the newly built day care center (so foolish not to coordinate but that's dcps/dgs for you!) a very economically and racially diverse community, the departure of some very long-tenured staff, and a previous principal who was there for 8 years and thus is the only principal any parents or students are likely to have known.

The optics look really bad for them to move a white man into a predominately black school to lead. They should have chosen a black man or a black woman to lead Amidon-Bowen.

I don't know who else applied for the job. He might have been the best option. And the school is increasingly diverse. If he can get the test scores up and cope with everything else, that will be wonderful. I don't believe the principal necessarily has to be the same race as the majority of the students, especially if the staff as a whole are diverse.