” I am so fired up and also energized,” brand-new Way of living High School principal Clarice Neal said. “Even here in the summertime there are youngsters everywhere as well as I simply obtain hugs as well as enjoy so I feel in one’s bones it is going to be a true blessing for me, my pupils and also my staff. It is mosting likely to be an outstanding experience that I can not wait to start on when the academic year starts.”
Neal started her new role in the management position on July 2. The position was most lately held by Montie Mansur, who served as principal for 2 years prior to he approved a brand-new work in San Antonio at the end of the year, Neal said.
This is Neal’s initial year to offer at Lifestyle Christian College. Previously, she served as a educator, department head, and administrator in Livingston ISD. She functioned as a instructor for 24 years at Corrigan Camden, where she was likewise a lead educator and department head.
She gained her Bachelors of Science as well as Master’s levels from Stephen F. Austin as well as principal certification from Sam Houston State College. She has a kid in Katy, a little girl in Colorado, and four grandchildren.
Neal shared when she transferred to Livingston, she searched for a home church. She found it in Conroe where her sibling lives and also goes to Conroe First Setting up. She signed up with the church and also discovered the requirement for a principal.
” I thought it would certainly be fantastic to be a principal where I go to church,” Neal said. “The process took about a month. It was extremely extreme since they wished to discover the very best individual for the work as well as students. That claims a whole lot that they did not take the choice gently.”
Neal feels blessed to offer the school as she takes the following step in her job. Resolving her goals moving forward, she shared she is eager to share her experience and also knowledge beginning with team growth on TEKS and also preparing students to be university all set, including with a new double credit history program with Lone Star University where the trainees can graduate with a term of university under their belt, as well as a wish to use even more.
With the new school year simply nearby, Neal said educators are currently preparing with brand-new hires and starting plans for personnel growth. Teachers and also personnel will certainly be welcomed back with an occasion on July 31 and an orientation with teachers to satisfy new parents and students along with returning students is scheduled for Aug. 14.
While she is thrilled regarding the new chapter, she recognizes the job will not always be easy.
” There will absolutely be difficulties, Neal said. “But we will just pray regarding those obstacles, take a seat as a group, resolve them as well as think of services with each other.”
The longtime, enthusiastic teacher said she does not see herself ever retiring. She thinks “children are the future” and that the private school ” gives more individualized treatment as well as guideline,” where she said trainees are “more than a number” and everybody wants pupils to do well academically, socially, as well as mentally to not only be efficient participants of society but to additionally carry on a love for Christ, God, and Country.
” From my short time below I assume that Way of life Christian College and its teachers as well as personnel are some of the most effective individuals I have actually ever before met as well as I am so eagerly anticipating dealing with them,” Neal said. “… I believe Way of life is a wonderful place to work with terrific students and teachers and also to enjoy them expand as well as come to be all they can be.”