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Bluebag Media
Woodland
principal: “I feel blessed to be here”
GREENVILLE – Woodland Principal Jeff Cassell spoke into a 2-way radio.
A bus pulled off to the side and stopped. As the rest of the buses
pulled out of the Woodland Heights parking lot, Cassell went to the
waiting bus. A minute later he had a child by the hand and was walking
him to the entrance of the building.
The child’s mother had called. He was going to be picked up by his
grandmother. The last bus left; the day was officially over. Almost.
Cassell still had meetings to attend.
After bouncing around during a 33-year career, Cassell had come home to
Darke County. A graduate of Franklin Monroe, he is the new principal at
Woodland Heights Primary School. He replaced Andrea Townsend, who had
accepted a position as Greenville’s director of Administrative and
Personnel Services. Cassell’s first assignment as a new teacher was at
Ansonia. From there he was at Franklin Monroe for several years, then
Bradford, Vandalia-Butler, Pleasant Hill-Newton and more. He spent the
years teaching, as a building administrator and in central office
administration…
“I wanted to get back to teaching,” Cassell said. “That was why I got
into education. To teach.” So he did. Eventually he decided he could
affect more change as a building principal. “It was nice, however, to
get back into teaching… to be able to experience what a teacher
experiences...
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