The start of the school year can be a nervous time for everyone—a student starting middle school, a teacher fresh out of college, or a principal starting a new job at a different school.
For Katie Law, moving to the principalship of the 200-student Wyoming Indian High School after 18 years at Arapaho Charter School on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming is both daunting and exciting. In her new role, she’ll get to try out her successful strategies to reduce absenteeism and boost family engagement on a much larger canvas.
“It was a lot easier in a school of 60 with maybe 10 of them having some attendance issues to be able to kind of track down those 10 kids. Is that system that I had in place going to work in this school?” said Law.