Liza Burrell-Aldana, principal of Mount Vernon Community School in Alexandria, is The Washington Post’s Principal of the Year.
At about 7 a.m. on a cold morning in early March, the power went out at Mount Vernon Community School in Alexandria. When the children arrived, the teachers walked them through the halls with flashlights, settled them into their classrooms and began teaching as if nothing had happened.Later that morning, the administration posted a chipper message on the school’s Facebook page with pictures of children sitting in darkened classrooms and reading by the windows.
Her colleagues credit her ability to communicate effectively. “She’s calm. She’s cool. She communicates a clear message. You don’t have to have a decoder ring to know what she’s thinking,” Porterfield said. A former Spanish immersion teacher, Burrell-Aldana, 48, started at Mount Vernon in 2014 as an assistant principal and oversaw the school’s development into a dual-language school.
“It was very challenging, to say the least,” she said. “The community that we are right now as a school is because of all of those challenges.”
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