To go along with a new principal, East also received two new assistant principals. Jeff Storey and Britton Haney both came from non-administration positions and are enjoying their first couple weeks of being part of the East administration.
This marks Jeff Storey’s 30th year working in schools. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Storey was a librarian at Indian Hills Middle School. Before that, he was the Latin teacher at Rockhurst High School, then at SM South. He also taught kindergarten through fifth grade Latin for five years in Kansas City, Missouri public schools.
Because of his time spent there, Storey knows all of the students from Indian Hills as well as a lot of the faculty at East. He emphasizes an open-door policy for all students who might need to talk.
“I certainly want to be here for the students,” he said. “If they have an issue [they] need to bring up, I would like to hear that and take it to the team.”
The other new addition to East’s administration, Britton Haney, has come to East after 13 years of teaching at SM Northwest. He taught a variety of math classes from Algebra 1A to AP Calculus, but spent the last couple of years teaching AP Statistics. In addition to math, Haney taught band and ran the drumline section of Northwest’s marching band.
One of Haney’s goals at East is to help students make better use of their seminar time, an issue that was addressed by moving seminar to the morning. But mostly, he wants to help as many people as he can.
“I think that’s why I got into administration in the first place,” he said. Instead of just working with the 150 kids that are assigned to my classroom, I’ll be working with all 1800 students plus the 100 staff members as well as anybody in the community.”
He’s sure that he will miss teaching, but he says that the East staff has been very supportive of him during the transition.
“I have just been very impressed at how everybody kind of with open arms just took me under their wing and is helping me fit right in,” Haney said.
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