New principals

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If our ES has a principal intern, are we more likely to lose our principal in the next few years? Do principals with a principal intern ever stay put?

Yes, they usually stay put. My kids' schools have had three principal interns, and none of the principals left afterwards.

In some schools a current principal would be going to retire anyway, and if that's the plan and if the intern has a successful practicum, then they're a likely candidate for the permanent job, or an acting appointment for a year, depending on the timing.

Good to hear. It seems like several new principals were just principal interns in the same school.

[Anonymous]

Here's a roundup of each of the new principals appointed in recent months:


John W. Taylor, currently principal, Cabin John Middle School, as principal, Winston Churchill High School

Heather B. Carias, currently principal intern, Thomas Edison High School of Technology, as supervisor, Thomas Edison High School of Technology

Alicia M. Deeny, currently principal, Takoma Park Middle School, as principal, Richard Montgomery High School

Scott E. Smith, currently assistant principal, Seneca Valley High School, as principal, Northwest High School

Rhoshanda M. Pyles, currently principal intern, William H. Farquhar Middle School, as principal, Rockville High School

Joshua H. Munsey, currently principal, John L. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents, as principal, Wheaton High School


Vincent R. Liburd, currently assistant principal, Montgomery Village Middle School, as principal, Montgomery Village Middle School

Kiera D. Butler, currently assistant principal, Newport Mill Middle School, as principal, Newport Mill Middle School


Natalie M. Hambrecht, currently principal intern, Kensington Parkwood Elementary School, as principal, Cold Spring Elementary School

Dr. Nikisha L. Blackmon, currently principal intern, William Tyler Page Elementary School, as principal, Capt. James E. Daly Elementary School

Paula G. Summers, currently principal intern, Clopper Mill Elementary School, as principal, Gaithersburg Elementary School

Jennifer A. Seidel, currently principal intern, Sequoyah Elementary School, as principal, Greenwood Elementary School

Megan H. Murphy, currently principal, Seven Locks Elementary School, as principal, Sequoyah Elementary School

Ilana S. Carr, currently principal intern, Strathmore Elementary School, as principal, Seven Locks Elementary School

Nichola A. Wallen, currently assistant principal, Galway Elementary School, as principal, Wyngate Elementary School

[Anonymous]

Who is currently principal of Rica?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is currently principal of Rica?

https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/rica/administration/

[Anonymous]

She seems good. But why an acting principal? RICA advertised the opening at the same time as NW and Churchill and RM. Was there no interest?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is the new RM P? She came from TPMS.

She’s absolutely amazing. A big loss to TPMS. You are VERY lucky to have her.

She hates the magnet programs and is very into social justice. Enjoy!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the new RM P? She came from TPMS.

She’s absolutely amazing. A big loss to TPMS. You are VERY lucky to have her.

She hates the magnet programs and is very into social justice. Enjoy!

People keep posting critical posts about leaders who value social justice, and I don't think they realize just how many people support principals like that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the new RM P? She came from TPMS.

She’s absolutely amazing. A big loss to TPMS. You are VERY lucky to have her.

She hates the magnet programs and is very into social justice. Enjoy!

Our home school is not TPMS, but DC was at the magnet. I have to agree RM is VERY lucky!!

This seems like a well deserved promotion for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mcps supports the principals who have no support for teachers. I think they should do away with the ones who have no spine don't have a hard line against violence in the classroom. I encourage teachers to leave the profession when they find out districts like mcps tie your hands to inflate the grades and keep gangsters in the class to create chaos.

LOL! Seriously? Then what will happen to schools like Clemente MS? They have already lost all good teachers and effectively lost all the lustre of the special programming. Why ask the teachers to leave?

Here is my opinion. Why not reward the toxic administrators at this school by giving them some plum assignments in W schools? Or assign them to central office? They have already paid their dues and proved their loyalty by doing their due diligence as henchmen of MCPS.

The W parents are pretty good at keeping their admins on the straight and narrow so they will not be able to harm the W schools despite the moral and intellectual inaptitude. In my books, this is equity. We are not asking for more resources for poor schools. We are just asking to remove the cancerous administrators from our school.

Stupid to ask teachers to leave because the handful of remaining experienced teachers will also leave.

- Parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the new RM P? She came from TPMS.

She’s absolutely amazing. A big loss to TPMS. You are VERY lucky to have her.

She hates the magnet programs and is very into social justice. Enjoy!

Our home school is not TPMS, but DC was at the magnet. I have to agree RM is VERY lucky!!

This seems like a well deserved promotion for her.

What did you like about her? Can you be more specific?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mcps supports the principals who have no support for teachers. I think they should do away with the ones who have no spine don't have a hard line against violence in the classroom. I encourage teachers to leave the profession when they find out districts like mcps tie your hands to inflate the grades and keep gangsters in the class to create chaos.

LOL! Seriously? Then what will happen to schools like Clemente MS? They have already lost all good teachers and effectively lost all the lustre of the special programming. Why ask the teachers to leave?

Here is my opinion. Why not reward the toxic administrators at this school by giving them some plum assignments in W schools? Or assign them to central office? They have already paid their dues and proved their loyalty by doing their due diligence as henchmen of MCPS.

The W parents are pretty good at keeping their admins on the straight and narrow so they will not be able to harm the W schools despite the moral and intellectual inaptitude. In my books, this is equity. We are not asking for more resources for poor schools. We are just asking to remove the cancerous administrators from our school.

Stupid to ask teachers to leave because the handful of remaining experienced teachers will also leave.

Are

- Parent

Are you kidding? The parents at my W school labored tirelessly to get rid of an ineffectual principal and got nowhere. If they were swapped out with your toxic principal, you’d trade one problem for another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the new RM P? She came from TPMS.

She’s absolutely amazing. A big loss to TPMS. You are VERY lucky to have her.

She hates the magnet programs and is very into social justice. Enjoy!

Yes, I agree she is anti-magnet and thinks all students are "gifted" (not that all students have gifts). She truly doesn't understand giftedness. I am sorry she has been moved to another school with a magnet. I suspect they recruited her to push down the magnet parents at RM because they are very vocal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mcps supports the principals who have no support for teachers. I think they should do away with the ones who have no spine don't have a hard line against violence in the classroom. I encourage teachers to leave the profession when they find out districts like mcps tie your hands to inflate the grades and keep gangsters in the class to create chaos.

LOL! Seriously? Then what will happen to schools like Clemente MS? They have already lost all good teachers and effectively lost all the lustre of the special programming. Why ask the teachers to leave?

Here is my opinion. Why not reward the toxic administrators at this school by giving them some plum assignments in W schools? Or assign them to central office? They have already paid their dues and proved their loyalty by doing their due diligence as henchmen of MCPS.

The W parents are pretty good at keeping their admins on the straight and narrow so they will not be able to harm the W schools despite the moral and intellectual inaptitude. In my books, this is equity. We are not asking for more resources for poor schools. We are just asking to remove the cancerous administrators from our school.

Stupid to ask teachers to leave because the handful of remaining experienced teachers will also leave.

Are

- Parent

Are you kidding? The parents at my W school labored tirelessly to get rid of an ineffectual principal and got nowhere. If they were swapped out with your toxic principal, you’d trade one problem for another.

We have a slew of new principals at our W schools, and they all came up through the MCPS training program, and all kow tow to central office. We need some new blood, because they are all awful

[Anonymous]

Yes, exactly. I wish they hired from outside.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, exactly. I wish they hired from outside.

+100 I also wished MCPS would hire candidates outside of the MCPS training system. This has been one of the biggest flaws in MCPS for decades.

Hiring principals from outside MCPS would bring new perspective and a bigger slate of candidates. I think MCPS avoids doing this because of the culture of bullying by supervisors and non-compliance with civil rights laws, they want leadership that is skilled in covering problems to protect MCPS. From the top down, supervisors use the people under them to do their dirty work so if something goes south, that person is left holding the bag. Often the principal is the person in the crossfire when he/she is just following directions from Central Office.

The culture biases in MCPS will never improve if biases are supported through only hiring principals from within. Same for most Central Office positions that current principals are promoted to.