{"id":372,"date":"2015-09-30T09:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2015-09-30T09:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:18:59","slug":"kathryn-mckinley-a-principal-for-the-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/kathryn-mckinley-a-principal-for-the-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathryn McKinley, A Principal For The Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kathryn<\/a>
Dylan Mitchell-River Hill Current<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Dylan Mitchell, Editor-In-Chief<\/p>\n

She may be the principal of River Hill, but Kathryn McKinley is just like you and me. She\u2019s a huge Ravens fan, watches Grey\u2019s Anatomy, and orders a burrito bowl with chicken, white rice, cheese, and pico de gallo from Chipotle.<\/p>\n

\u200bBefore being appointed principal at River Hill, McKinley served as the Howard County Public School System\u2019s director of curriculum and principal of Mount View Middle school for the six years prior to that.<\/p>\n

\u200bThe new school year, especially with a new principal, brings on a lot of challenges, but also excitement. Just like most students, McKinley is \u201creally looking forward to being part of a school community with students, teachers, and parents.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200bMcKinley may be new to River Hill, but she is already taking a huge liking to the students. Prepared to create the best environment for all of the students she explains \u201cmy first priority is them (the students). I\u2019m always going to do what\u2019s in the best interest of students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200bThere\u2019s no doubt the focus at River Hill is going to be on the students, and for the best interest of the student body. The point isn\u2019t to graduate or to just pass a class, but instead, McKinley wants students to look back at high school and say \u201cit was one of the greatest times of their lives, and they felt like they could balance their academics, activities, and personal choices.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200bEven with a pretty smooth transition, there\u2019s still a learning curve. With some miscommunications or questions about certain policies, McKinley recommends that if students \u201chave a question, they should ask it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200bAsking about a certain topic or question is something being emphasized to ensure the students, staff and administration are all on the same page. Conversation is being strongly encouraged, even if it\u2019s just a friendly talk about interests.<\/p>\n

\u200bConversations like these could help create an increase in engagement between all different bodies of the school. Whether it\u2019s administration or teachers throughout the building, McKinley wants \u201cto see a shift in staff engagement so they are engaged beyond their classrooms, and so they want to be a part of the whole school.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200bThe most important part of this transition to a new principal is that she wants to be here, and feels blessed to have an opportunity to be at River Hill. McKinley explain that \u201cwhen they offered me River Hill, I had no idea I would get River Hill. I knew it was going to be a high school, but I really feel I was in the right place at the right time, with all the right people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u200bThe River Hill community is certainly ready to embrace McKinley just as much as she is ready to embrace the community. It\u2019s always hard to make changes, but in this case, everybody seems to already be on the right path to success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dylan Mitchell, Editor-In-Chief She may be the principal of River Hill, but Kathryn McKinley is just like you and me. She\u2019s a huge Ravens fan, watches Grey\u2019s Anatomy, and orders a burrito bowl with chicken, white rice, cheese, and pico de gallo from Chipotle. \u200bBefore being appointed principal at River Hill, McKinley served as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kathryn-mckinley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/image1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}