Delsie Sissoko, an Upper Peninsula native who has been teaching in Monroe Public Schools since 2007, has been named an assistant principal at Monroe High School.  Her appointment was affirmed Tuesday night (Sept, 8) by the Monroe Public Schools Board of Education.

     Mrs. Sissoko succeeds Alex Schukow who left MHS to become an assistant principal in Saline.

     “When you look at the major improvement projects we have had over the last six or seven years, Delsie’s name is always among them, as a member or leader of the group.  She has had a hand in many of the major strides we as a district have been able to make,” said Julie Everly, deputy superintendent, Monroe Public Schools.  

     Over the past two summers, Mrs. Sissoko has been the program coordinator for the highly successful Arborwood Summer Reading Program, after being the leader of the Arborwood Family Engagement sub-committee.  She also has been associated with her school’s improvement committee and the district’s school improvement committee.  She has led the District English Language Arts Committee and was the professional learning council leader of the Lucy Calkins district Reading Pilot Program.  She has been a PTO-teacher liaison and a member of her school’s Technology Committee.

     Mrs. Sissoko began her career at Monroe Public Schools in 2007 as a teacher at the former Lincoln Elementary School.  For four years she taught at Arbowood Elementary when the school opened as an elementary and then was appointed the school’s improvement coach in 2013

     She has her bachelor’s degree in elementary education, mathematics and integrated science from Finlandia University.  She also holds a master’s degree from Eastern Michigan University as a reading specialist.