Reimagining High School - Creating a Learning Space for Future Generations.
Sep 11, 2024 6:30 PM
Donna Sweet: Middletown HS Principal
Reimagining High School - Creating a Learning Space for Future Generations.
Our guest speaker on September 11th is Donna Sweet, Principal of Middletown High. Below is an excerpt from Newport This Week.
An educator for 27 years, Sweet got her start as an English teacher in the Westerly schools. From there, she rose to become a counselor before shifting into multiple administrative roles including a dean of students and assistant principal of multiple southern Rhode Island schools, most recently Westerly High School.
“I am really attracted to the process of what is entailed in creating a learning space for future generations,” Sweet said. “I want to see more to understand but I think it will be important to think about (Career & Technical Education) programming, career path- ways, athletic spaces, resources for the fine arts and the ability to have potential shared resources or access to resources so we can accurately think about public secondary education as grades 6-12 versus just as a four year high school experience. Safety, sustainability and green spaces will be important factors as well. We will have the ability to build a school of the future and I look forward to that work.”