People

Interview with Assistant Principal Telford 

Assistant Principal Telford is the new assistant principal intern at Kennedy Jr. High

by Joshua D., Ashlynn G., and Delany R. 

October 2024

What are your goals this year? His goal was to be the best assistant principal that he can be and to secure a full time assistant principal job for next year.

How are you going to achieve that goal? He is going to achieve that by listening to the advice from Principal Tenbrink and fixing some of his bad habits and making them stronger habits.

Do you think that it will benefit the school? He thinks that it will benefit the school because the harder he works, the more students will put more effort into school.

What is your favorite thing to do after school and why? His favorite thing to do after school is to be in nature like going fishing or biking or even hiking. The fresh air from outside helps him to relax.

What inspired you to be an assistant principal and why? His mom was a principal in a school so that was the main reason and he has other people he admires and that he knew before he joined Kennedy Jr High. He knew Mr. McDaniel and Ms. Tenbrink from Cyprus High School and they both inspired him to be assistant principal.

How are you going to get to know the students? He likes to be in the hall with students and at lunch and ask them questions and just talk. He tries to do what they like to do and have fun. He likes the Knights in the Hall videos, which have been a good help to meet students.

Before you became an Assistant Principal what did you do? He was at Cyprus High School as a math teacher.

Interview with Ms. MacLean

Ms. MacLean is the new social studies teacher at Kennedy Jr. High

by Hadley C. and Andrea L. 

October 2024

How has Kennedy been for you? It's been amazing. I got to teach 

last year so it's been really fun. I have the same  students I had last year. 

What was your favorite subject in middle school and why? My fav sub was FACTS because I was on a sewing team and we got to compete we made our own dresses and compete our work.

Would you say having your own classroom is more difficult than you expected? And why? It is more difficult to plan lessons and stuff but it's also nice because you get to run your own classroom how you want.

Lastly, what made you want to teach? I worked as an aide and I really liked working with students. I found a passion. So I get to do it full time now. It's fun to make connections with you guys and relationships.