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The Montgomery County Board of Education on Thursday appointed several administrators, including new principals at Winston Churchill, Richard Montgomery and Northwest high schools.
The school board approved John Taylor as Churchill’s next principal, replacing Brandice Heckert who in June announced she was leaving to take a “leadership position within MCPS.”
Taylor was most recently the principal of Cabin John Middle School. Both Churchill and Cabin John Middle School are in Potomac.
In a letter to the Churchill community, MCPS Director of Learning, Achievement and Administration Peter Moran wrote that Taylor will assume the principalship on July 19.
He wrote that during meetings in June, community members said their priorities for the new leader were a commitment to leading “a strong instructional program with a focus on equity” and who is “accessible, collaborative and knows how to organize others around a common vision of high expectations for all stud