Trena Wilson begins her new role as acting principal of Springhill Lake Elementary School (SHLES), where she first taught, fresh from graduating from Lincoln University in 1998. Wilson was enthusiastic in her expressions of appreciation of the strengths of the school and the community in her conversation with the News Review. She was also frank in her assessment of the school’s needs and her vision for the future.
Wilson knows the school well. She taught there from 1998 to 2004, as a third grade, fourth grade, and math resource teacher, eventually moving on to become an assistant principal at Langley Park-McCormick Elementary School. She awaits the Prince George’s County School Board’s confirmation of her permanent status as principal at SHLES.
A conversation about the school’s strengths took place in an office piled with books, whiteboards and the other tools of teaching. Outside the open principal’s door, the business of school preparation went on. Families came with kids, rang the buzzer and asked questions in Spanish and English about enrollment, supplies, etc. Outside, beyond the school door, the work of building repairs went on.
For more of this story, see the August 22 News Review.
