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Vernon Bruni, shown demonstrating a stress ball last year as the principal of Hood Canal Schools, on Tuesday was hired as the new principal at CHOICE High School in downtown Shelton. He replaces Stacey Anderson, who is the new assistant principal at the Olympia Regional Learning Academy in the Olympia School District.
Three new principals will helm Shelton schools in September.
The Shelton School Board on Tuesday evening approved the hiring of Vernon Bruni as principal at CHOICE High School, Paula Canady at Evergreen Elementary School and Teresa Mayhr at Oakland Bay Junior High School. The hirings were part of the school board's common consent agenda.
The trio replaces three principals who resigned in June: Mario Juves at Oakland Bay Junior High, Stacey Anderson at CHOICE High School and Amber Argus at Evergreen Elementary.
Bruni has been the principal at Hood Canal Schools. His diverse resume includes working as a paraprofessional in charter, private and public schools in Germany, and at private and charter schools in Minnesota and Washington. He has been a coach, teacher, administrative intern and an assistant principal/athletic director. He was a secondary school principal in the North Beach School District before coming to the Hood Canal School District.
Mayr has been the assistant principal at Adams Elementary in the Wapato School District since August 2016. She takes over a school with about 550 students in grades seven and eight.
Mayr began her teaching career in 1998 teaching special education preschool, Title I reading, third-grade science, and a combined fourth/fifth-grade class in the Fife School District. From 2000 to 2012, she was a certified primary teacher at Lake Tapps Elementary School in Pierce County. She was interim principal at Lake Tapps Elementary School from 2014-2016 and principal at Orcas Island Elementary School from 2015-2016. Her resume includes stints as a summer school supervisor and an afterschool reading program administrator.
Mayr earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration and management from the University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business in 1985, a Bachelor of Education in teaching from UW Tacoma in 1998, and from that college, a Master of Education degree in 2000 and as administrative certificate in 2009.
Canady takes the helm at the bi-lingual Evergreen Elementary School in downtown Shelton.
Canady has worked for the Peninsula School District in Gig Harbor for the past 19 years. She was a music specialist from 2003 to 2014, and since then has been the district's dean of students.
Canady earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from the University of Washington in 2001. She earned a Master of Education degree in educational leadership from UW Tacoma in 2013
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