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District to hire new WSHS principal (6/2/2021)
Winona Area Public Schools (WAPS) staff have selected a new Winona Senior High School (WSHS) principal. Heather Fitzloff, who has served as an assistant principal at Prior Lake High School in Savage, Minn., for nine years, is recommended to be the next leader of WSHS, according to Superintendent Annette Freiheit.
School Board members will vote on whether to approve the selection at their June 3 meeting. If approved, Fitzloff would begin on July 1.
The selection follows the current principal’s resignation. WSHS Principal Mark Anderson will step down at the end of this school year to begin in his new role, principal of Kennedy Secondary School in Fergus Falls, Minn., in July. He has worked at WAPS for more than 10 years. Prior to becoming the WSHS principal in 2016, he served as the Winona Middle School principal.
WSHS principal takes new job; WAPS hiring (5/7/2021)
Winona Senior High School (WSHS) Principal Mark Anderson will soon step down from his current position to serve as principal of Kennedy Secondary School in Fergus Falls, Minn. He will start serving in his new role this July.
Anderson has been with the district for over a decade, serving as Winona Middle School principal before moving to the high school in 2016.
Winona Area Public Schools (WAPS) Board member Karl Sonneman said at the board’s May 6 meeting that he would like board members to play more of a role in and have additional oversight of the hiring process for WSHS’s next principal. The School Board follows Minnesota School Board Association (MSBA) processes regarding boards’ functions in school districts, Sonneman said, and he does not agree with the association’s guidance about boards’ roles with hiring staff. A board’s role is to “select and employ one person the superinte