Sporleder takes Alternative Education Programs Principal position

March 14, 2007
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Sporleder takes Alternative Education Programs Principal position

Walla Walla Public Schools announced today current Garrison Middle School Principal Jim Sporleder has accepted the vacant Alternative Education Programs Principal position to manage Paine Campus, the Opportunity Program, and other district alternative education programs.

Sporleder succeeds current Principal Jeff Weeks who announced in February his intentions to resign at the end of the school year. Sporleder will remain at Garrison for the remainder of this school year and begin his new position July 1.

I am excited about this new chapter in my life and I am really looking forward to this new challenge, Sporleder said. Garrison has been my extended family for the past 20 plus years. I have grown as a person and professionally working with such committed staff and will always carry them with me. This new opportunity allows me to grow both personally and professionally. I will give the new position my best effort and look forward to meeting the students, staff, and parent community.

Sporleder has been employed in the district for 21 years all at Garrison. He began his tenure in the district in 1986 as a Special Education teacher. He spent three years as Garrisons assistant principal and is in his 10^th year as the schools principal. He received his Bachelors degree from Azusa Pacific University in 1976 in Physical Education and K-12 Special Education. He has a Masters degree from Northwest Nazarene in Curriculum. He earned his Administration Degree in 1993. His previous teaching experience from 1977 through 1982 was in Glendora Unified School District. He took a break from education from 1982 to 1986 to work with his family's retail business -- Sporleder's for Men and Women.

The districts Personnel Department will lead a search for a new Garrison Middle School principal. No timeline has been determined. For more information about Jim Sporleder and his new position, contact Communications Director Mark Higgins at (509) 526-6716 or by e-mail: mhiggins@wwps.org.

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