Meghan Gibson, who is entering her 12th year with Monroe Public Schools, has been named principal of Waterloo Elementary School.  Her appointment was approved Tuesday night (August 25) by the Monroe Public Schools Board of Education. 

     “Our district’s promise is to ‘help your child succeed’ and Meghan’s career with Monroe Public Schools is one that has many examples of her going the extra measure to help children learn and succeed,” said Mrs. Julie Everly, deputy superintendent, Monroe Public Schools.  “In fact, even in the summer, she was part of the Arborwood team that came in on their summer off-time and worked with children to ensure that their reading skills did not diminish over the summer.  She has worked on district projects over a number of summers.”

     From February 2014 to June 2014, she was an interim assistant principal at Arborwood.  Since 2008, she has been an elementary math coach, a math consultant and a School Improvement Coach, headquartered at Arborwood Elementary Campus for the last several years.  During that time, she was one of the leaders in implementing the DreamBox Learning math program now so popular with students and parents.  She has been a member of the District Elementary Math and Social Studies Committees. 

     Mrs. Gibson helped in the planning and implementation of Professional Learning Committees and School Improvement Program efforts at Manor, Waterloo and Arborwood elementaries and Monroe Middle School.  She also was a member of the teacher-led team which designed and implemented the MPS’ on-line Student Progress Monitoring Tool.  In addition, she helped prepare Manor Elementary School for its move into Title I status several years ago.

     For her first four years with Monroe Public Schools, Mrs. Gibson was a classroom teacher at the former South Monroe Townsite Elementary School.  She holds a Bachelors degree in education from Eastern Michigan University and a Master of Science in Educational Leadership Degree from Walden University.