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FCPS promotes two local principals

Gros [FCPS]
When Stuart High School reopens in the fall as Justice High
School, it will have a new principal.
Stuart Principal Penny Gros has accepted a new position as
executive principal for Fairfax County Public Schools’ Region 2. At the same
time, Frost Middle School Principal Eric McCann is leaving to become executive
principal for Region 5.
“This is bittersweet for me as my time at Stuart High School
has been among the most rewarding years of my career,” Gros wrote in an email
to the community May 23.

“I was fortunate five years ago to be appointed
principal of Glasgow Middle School, which brought me into this community. I
was then privileged to follow our amazing students to high school where I have
gotten to watch them as they have grown into young adults,” Gros says.

“I have enjoyed my time at Stuart more than I could have
imagined, and that is truly because of the students, staff, and families,” she says. “I
have gotten to work alongside an incredible administrative team and the most
caring and dedicated faculty, and have been truly supported by our wonderful
parents every step of the way.”

As executive principal, Gros will mentor and support school-based
leaders in all the schools in Region 2, including the Annandale, Falls Church,
Justice, Marshall, and McLean pyramids and Thomas Jefferson High School for
Science and Technology.
Region 2 Assistant Superintendent Fabio Zuluaga will follow
up with a message to the community about a process and timeline for selecting a
new principal for Justice High School.
McCann [FCPS]
McCann sent an email May 23 informing the Frost community about his
promotion to executive principal. 
       
Since McCann arrived at Frost four years ago, he says, “the staff has
embraced new ways of teaching and learning through the implementation of project-based
learning, technology integration, development of executive functioning skills,
and content literacy instruction.”  
“Through strong collaborative practices, and skilled teacher
leadership, Frost has seen great strides in student achievement and served as a
model for many other schools in FCPS and beyond,” McCann says. “Our amazing PTA
and parent volunteers have continuously supported our teachers and after-school
clubs by generously volunteering their time and providing grants for many
unique and exciting programs.”        

As executive principal for Region 5, McCann will work
with schools in the Woodson, Fairfax, Chantilly, and Westfield pyramids. He
says the Frost community will be invited to a meeting in the near future to
learn about the process for selecting a new principal.      

One response to “FCPS promotes two local principals

  1. Penny Gros is a cheat and a liar. Ask her about IB testing fraud during her time at justice. Ask her about her mismanagement of sexual assault complaints. Ask her about what she did to the class of 2015 in the summer of 2016. Ask her about teacher turnover. Ask her about how many suspensions and expulsions were handed out to non-white students.

    Careerism at its worst. Principal jobs should be occupied for more than 5 years unless it can't be avoided. She had no intention of doing this, her gig was allowing cheating to occur on tests, present herself as a miracle worker for accreditation, and moving on. Justice has had riddile, jones, calhoun, gros, and eck in a little over a decade. What do you think that's done to the school? Fairfax doesn't care though, because the school's area is poor and brown.

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