Friday, Jun. 19, 2009
Seasoned educators to head schools
Kenyon will head Kermit King Elementary and Miller will run Flamson Middle School
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closeTwo local educators — including a former Teacher of the Year and a 1980s Paso Robles High School graduate — will move into new leadership roles with Paso Robles Public Schools this summer.
Carol Kenyon, a reading specialist at Kermit King Elementary School, has been promoted to principal there.
Gene Miller is moving from principal at San Luis Obispo’s Laguna Middle School to principal at Flamson Middle School.
Both campuses are in Paso Robles.
The new leaders, whom the school board appointed in late May, will step into their roles Aug. 3 for the 2009-10 academic year.
After a statewide search, Kenyon was selected out of 67 applications, school officials said. She replaces Paul Corso, who retired this year after 30 years in education.
With more than 18 years in education — 12 of which were in Paso Robles schools — she will oversee the Kermit King campus of 400 students and 34 teachers.
Miller was selected from 54 applicants statewide, officials said.
“As a Bearcat, I am excited about returning to a district I consider my home,” the 1984 Paso Robles High School graduate said.
Filling the position vacated by Frank Galicia — who will teach in China this fall — Miller will oversee Flamson’s campus of 65 teachers and 700 students.
Carol Kenyon
Kenyon began her career as a second-grade teacher in the Central Valley city of Ceres in 1991, and came to Paso Robles as a first-grade teacher at Peterson Elementary School in 1996.
She has been the reading specialist at Kermit King since the school’s opening in 2001, officials said, and was honored as its 2008 Teacher of the Year.
“Mrs. Kenyon brings insight as a reading specialist, curriculum leader in assessment, grant writing and student literacy,” school district spokesman Sheldon Smith said.
Gene Miller
Miller has more than 16 years in education — 15 of them at Paso Robles schools beginning as a Paso Robles High School social studies teacher in 1993.
He went on to become the high school’s activities director, senior class adviser and department chairman. He then became principal at Lewis Middle School and Flamson’s assistant principal.
He moved to Laguna Middle School in San Luis Obispo when the principal’s post opened in 2008, he said, because he didn’t think a North County leadership role would open up.
After a year, the Paso Robles resident decided to make the move back to Paso Robles Public Schools, he said, because the daily commute to San Luis Obispo took time away from his family.
Miller said he’s excited to return to Flamson because, when he was in high school, he marched up the field at War Memorial Stadium — which is located on Flamson’s campus — when he was in band and played the trombone.
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