FLORY PRINCIPAL TO HEAD NEW SCHOOL.Byline: Alicia Doyle Doyle , Sir Arthur Conan 1859-1930. British writer known chiefly for a series of stories featuring the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, including The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902). Daily News Staff Writer Flory School Principal Teri Williams has been appointed the principal of a new elementary school elementary school: see school. scheduled to be built on Casey Road in Moorpark, district officials announced. Williams will stay in her current post until the new school is completed sometime next fall, officials said. The Moorpark resident was a teacher at Flory School for 13 years before she became principal and has served in the post for the past five years. Williams looks forward to the new challenges ahead. But she will miss the camaraderie ca·ma·ra·der·ie n. Goodwill and lighthearted rapport between or among friends; comradeship. [French, from camarade, comrade, from Old French, roommate; see comrade. , friendships and teamwork (product, software, tool) Teamwork - A SASD tool from Sterling Software, formerly CADRE Technologies, which supports the Shlaer/Mellor Object-Oriented method and the Yourdon-DeMarco, Hatley-Pirbhai, Constantine and Buhr notations. that she has built at Flory School over the years. ``I hope to pull a staff together (at the new school) that will work cohesively the way the team at Flory does,'' said Williams, 44. Born and raised in Oxnard, Williams said her desire to teach developed at a young age. After school, she would come home and pretend to be a teacher while playing with her friends. In junior high, she started teaching religious education classes at her family's church. A UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX graduate, Williams earned her bachelor's degree in English and went on to earn her master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. in educational administration from California Lutheran University Mission statement The University's mission statement is as follows: "California Lutheran University is a diverse, scholarly community dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts and professional studies. . Though she's worn a principal's hat for the past five years, Williams said her first love is teaching. ``I will always be a teacher,'' she said. ``Being a principal is like being a teacher in many respects. You continue to teach but in a different manner because you're working with adults.'' She said her biggest challenge over the years has been trying to keep everyone happy - parents, students and staff. ``It was difficult at times,'' she said. ``You have these three forces will all different needs and you're the person in the middle. And your job is to keep a happy medium for everybody.'' At her new school, she hopes to involve a broad spectrum of parents, teachers and community members to put together a vision of what the new school should be like. ``I hope to be as fortunate as I have been at Flory School in having an innovative staff and supportive parents with whom to work,'' Williams said. Her successor at Flory will be Pamela Hill, program coordinator at both Flory and Arroyo West schools. Hill also has been a teacher in the Moorpark Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. for two years, officials said. |
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