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Best Principal - Shawn DeRose at Annandale HS, formerly principal at Glasgow.

Glasgow is an awful school.  It is completely overcrowded, lots of violence, chaos, and there are far too many students with needs (IEP, socioeconomic, and language) but without proper resources to handle it.  
He came in and made sweeping changes to help as much as possible given the untenable circumstances the County put him into.  He was tasked to then go to Annandale after that (sadly almost every positive reform at Glasgow ended and it is horrific again).

At Annandale, he has started the turnaround.  Give him five more years and that school will be a solid middle of the pack school even though it has a good population of FARMS.

What does he do to be a leader?  He is PRESENT.  So much so we joke that he must have clones.  He is at PTO meetings, all the sporting events, he is roaming the halls, and he is talking to parents picking up their kids.  He communicates quickly and effectively about anything that happens within Annandale.  Lock downs and incidents are quickly communicated and how they were handled.

He has created teacher accountability but promoted a warm working environment.  So if you are good at your job, you will love it there.  If you are not, you will be worked with or you will move on.

He is a high energy extrovert who promotes his school on social media and has gone viral several times. He is great with faces and names, so every student feels known.

So, yea, he is a great principal.[/quote]

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