Jessica Johnson has been selected as the Mentor Center principal for the 2009-2010 school year and seeks your advice and feedback as she embarks on her third year in the principalship. Johnson is principal of Dodgeland Elementary School in rural Juneau, Wisconsin. The student population comprises about 390 students in 4-year-old kindergarten through fifth grade, including an early childhood program for children ages 3-5 with special needs.

Before becoming principal of Dodgeland Elementary in 2008, she served as an assistant principal in a large district of 22 schools in Phoenix, where she had a network of many administrators to call upon for advice. Now, she works in a one-building school district in which she is the only elementary principal.
Follow Johnson throughout the school year as she asks for suggestions of veteran principals. Her entries will be published in Communicator as well as right here on the Principals’ Office blog, where you’ll be able reply to her directly.