Each of the seven elementary, three middle and two high school principals will be shadowed by an invited guest or two, and share school day experiences and insight into how schools run.
“Our community members, officials, principals and students thoroughly enjoyed our first Principal Day so we decided to make it an annual experience,” stated SJUSD Superintendent Diane Perez.
SJUSD’s Principal For A Day itinerary begins at the SJUSD district office for a short welcome and light breakfast. Guests are paired up with principals and sent to the school sites to spend the morning performing regular duties and handling items like any other school day. At lunch time, Principal For A Day teams will return to the district office for lunch and an opportunity to share their experiences and highlights.
“I am very honored to be selected for the 2017 Principal For A Day event,” said Ignacio Valdivia, Sustainability Coordinator for CR&R Environmental Services, the waste and recycling collection firm for San Jacinto. “I feel education is so important,” noted Valdivia, who will be representing the Board of Directors from the Hemet/San Jacinto Valley Chamber of Commerce.
The 2017 Principal For A Day guests include: Art Asper, Retired Businessman; Mike Castello, Tribal Administrator, Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians; Gerald Chase, Cloverlane Foundation; Dee Cozart, Board President, Hemet/San Jacinto Valley Chamber of Commerce; Scott Cozart, Tribal Chairman, Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians; Rob Johnson, City Manager, City of San Jacinto; Tara Magner, Executive Coordinator, City of San Jacinto; Scott Miller, Mayor, City of San Jacinto; Bobbi Moreno, President, Hemet/San Jacinto Council PTA; Malea Ortloff, Eastern Municipal Water District; Jerry Peebles, San Jacinto Education Foundation; Captain Leonard Purvis, Riverside County Sheriff’s Department; Lt. John Salisbury, San Jacinto Police Chief of Police; Brad Scott, Scott Brothers Dairy; Ignacio Valdivia, Board Member, Hemet/San Jacinto Valley Chamber of Commerce; Debra Willis, Willis Family Foundation; Christyl Woodard, President, San Jacinto Elementary PTA.