Dr. Susan Enfield, Interim Superintendent for Seattle Public Schools has announced principal appointments for the 2011-2012 school year. Two of those assignments are in the Ballard area.
Viewlands Elementary (10525 3rd Avenue NW) is set to open next school year and Lisa Escobar has been appointed principal.
Lisa Escobar has been appointed principal for Viewlands. Escobar, a Seattle Public Schools administrator since 2004, has been a principal at Nova, The Center School and is currently co-principal at Rainier Beach High School. She held positions as an elementary school principal and assistant principal at the middle school level. In addition to her service with Seattle Public Schools, she has been a classroom teacher at schools in Issaquah and school districts in California. Escobar taught general, special and bilingual education for several years at the elementary and secondary level and did her administrative internship at an elementary school. Escobar received her degree in health science with minors in chemistry and biology from California State University, Chico. She has a master’s degree in special education from San Jose State University, where her focus was on engaging Spanish-speaking parents in the IEP (Individualized Education Program) process. She received her administrative credential from Chico State.
Ballard High School interim principal, Kevin Wynkoop, has been named principal for the school.
Kevin Wynkoop has been appointed principal for Ballard. Wynkoop has five years of leadership experience as assistant principal at Ballard, and also served as the school’s activities coordinator from 2002-2007. He is a third-generation Ballard High School graduate (class of 1994) who has worked at Ballard for his entire professional career. Prior to his appointment as assistant principal, Wynkoop taught U.S. History, World History and AP Government at the school for six years. Wynkoop’s professional preparation includes a Bachelor of Arts in Education – Social Studies from Pacific Lutheran University and a Master of Educational Administration from Western Washington University.
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“co-principal at Rainier Beach High School”
She’s ready for a vacation then…..
I’m so pleased to see Kevin be the official Ballard HS principal! That’s a good idea!
Dave, are you kidding? Check the numbers of RB’s enrollment? Around 400 with two principals?
did you ever think that they need two principals due to the demographics? think outta the box.
Only 400? Why aren’t all of Seattle’s liberals and diversity maidens volunteering and sending their kids to RBHS? You’d think they’d be knocking down the door since so many claim diversity is important.
Ballard is so VERY lucky to have Mr. Wynkoop!!
For one reason, because RHBS is 15 miles from my house. And us liberal diversity maidens would rather have minority kids be given a place to step up, rather than send our kids miles away where they likely won’t make a difference. Check your white privilege, dude.
You could always move down and south and by live your words…but instead you’d rather have our kids thrown out of local schools to fulfill what? An end to so-called white privilege, aka valuing education?
Luckily you lost that battle in ’07 with the Supreme Court Ballard High case.
“would rather have minority kids be given a place to step up”
So you’d rather black kids get bused, not yours. How liberal of you!
Do you send your kids to public school? Obviously not!
For a variety of reasons outside of anyone’s direct control, schools in poorer areas suck. The entire system needs radical changes to affect any difference.
In the meantime, I’m not sacrificing my child’s education and future to fulfill some idealized agenda.
This isn’t about being “liberal”, “racist” or enjoying “white privilege.” I am so fucking pissed off at people like you trying to frame it like this.
You want to improve school integration? Me too! I don’t want my kid to only go to school with other white kids of my social demographic either.
Work constructively to try to fix the problem. Otherwise STFU with your socio-economic political race baiting.