New Principal for Wilson High School

[Anonymous]

A new principal for Wilson High School has been announced. Her name is Kimberly Martin who will come to Wilson from Aspen High School in Colorado where she received a vote of "no confidence" from her teaching staff last year and whose tenure at the school has been described as "embattled". Can anyone explain why she is a good choice for Wilson?

[Anonymous]

Way to give half the story.

"Martin’s tenure had its ups and downs. At one point in June, teachers in the Aspen Education Association gave her a vote of no confidence, which was quickly followed by an outpouring of pro-Martin support from parents and students. Tension between high school administrators and teachers bubbled up again recently when Mark Grice, assistant principal at the high school, changed a student’s grade without first consulting a teacher.

Martin said these conflicts played a role in her decision, but the reality is that personal and professional matters elsewhere were pulling her away. First, she said, an older brother died recently and her mother is aging. On a more professional level, she has a doctoral dissertation to finish and she wants to help school reform efforts in big, urban school districts.

“I love, love, love the students at Aspen High School, but my life’s work and passion has been around issues of closing achievement gaps and working with students who come from poverty,” Martin said.

The self-described “student-centered administrator” said she’ll miss the bright and highly motivated students in Aspen as well as the parents she has come to know.
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[Anonymous]

there is another thread on this already

[jsteele]

Please join the existing thread:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/474216.page