Q&A With New Faculty at LHS
Editor’s Note: Some responses were edited for clarity Ms. Heidi Drawec: Assistant Principal As an assistant principal, what do you look forward to most at the beginning of the year? It’s having that first day with everybody coming back together as a community. We get to see teachers, students, everyone back together again. I really look forward to that. When did you decide you wanted to become an educator, and what made you realize it? I was in college, taking a totally different course than education, and there was an English professor that made me love English and reading and
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