Four Interim Principals Recommended for Therrell, Jackson and B.E.S.T. Academy High Schools

Interim Principals have been recommended for the Therrell School of Health Science and Research, Therrell School of Law, Government and Public Policy, Jackson High School and B.E.S.T. Academy High School campuses for the 2012-2013 school year.

School	Recommendation
BEST High School	Gary Cantrell, Interim Served as Assistant Principal at Therrell High School for the 11-12 School year Served as Assistant Principal and Academy Leader at Douglass High School for 3 years prior to moving to Therrell Taught at Douglass High School for a total of 6 years
Maynard Jackson High School	Thomas Kenner, Interim Has 7 years of leadership experience in APS serving as principal at Usher and Young Middle Schools Served as Assistant Principal for 7 years in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Served as Director of Upward Bound for 10 years in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Therrell School of Health Science and Research	Shelly Powell, Interim Served as Model Teacher Leader in the Office of High Schools for 2 years Served as the Small Schools/Small Learning Communities Implementation Specialist with the Office of High Schools for 4 years Taught in APS and Florida for a total of 7 years
Therrell School of Law, Government and Public Policy	Libra Royster, Interim Served as the Program Administrator for School Improvement at Therrell for the 11-12 school year Served as Title I Coordinator for 2 years Taught in APS and Fulton for a total of 13 years

APS Cool Kid: Lucy Leonard

Lucy Leonard, a recent graduate of Grady High School, will spend her summer as a YMCA camp counselor, teaching zip lining and leadership skills to teens.

Since the age of 7, Lucy Leonard has spent part of each summer vacation in the same way.

Located only four hours outside of Atlanta, yet still worlds away, the Henry Grady High School recent graduate is a veteran at YMCA’s Camp Thunderbird, located in North Carolina.  Learning lifelong lessons and developing valuable friendships year after year as a camper, this year Lucy has chosen a summer of service, spending the next few weeks as a camp counselor.  Lucy hopes to further develop her leadership and management skills while teaching other youth skills that they can carry back to the classroom in the fall.

So how does she describe being responsible for a cabin of twelve 14 year old girls? “I find them both fun and challenging,” says Lucy.

This year, her counselor responsibilities have taken her to the challenge course, where she teaches young campers how to climb, rappel, and zipline.

Come August, Lucy will head to Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Having earned a merit-based scholarship to Tulane, she is currently pondering studying anthropology, international relations or journalism.  Lucy is very interested in travel, writing, and photography and developed her sharp newsroom skills while serving as the associate managing editor of The Southerner, Grady High School’s award winning newspaper.

Always seeking a new challenge, Lucy hopes to further her journalistic experience at the Tulane Hullabaloo, the university’s student newspaper.  Lucy has applied for the Hullabaloo’s Summer Journalism Experience, which would give her an advance taste of news writing in the Big Easy.