School district names new SHS principal

Mountain Mail reports

Note: This is a brief version of a story that will appear in Thursday's edition of the Mountain Mail.

Socorro High School’s new principal will be Craig DeYoung, who was most recently interim principal at Silver City’s Aldo Leopold High School.
Socorro Consolidated Schools Superintendent Cheryl Wilson said in a press release Friday she is pleased the district hired someone who has experience and energy.
“Mr. DeYoung’s depth and variety of leadership experiences in the curricular, co-curricular and district management areas have given him the skills to really lead Socorro High School and to complement the skills of Ms. Comiskey and Mr. Savedra and other teacher-leaders of the high school,” Wilson stated in the release.
DeYoung began his science teaching career in the Silver City school district in the 1980s after attending Western New Mexico University, according to the Socorro school district’s press release.
After teaching and coaching for six years in Silver City, he moved to Lakeville, Minn., where he taught science and coached for 10 years before serving for six years as the district activities director, leading a staff of 150 and 1,500 students annually participating in sports, fine arts and other co-curricular activities.
While in Lakeville, he led curriculum efforts and co-curricular program development, worked directly with students in leadership groups and was involved in student discipline, designed evaluation instruments and evaluated staff, and managed the resources and budget for all of those programs. Additionally, he worked for over four years in central office administration in Perris, Calif., the press release stated.
“We are really delighted to be able to add him to our team,” Wilson said. “We were very pleased with the opportunity to meet and learn about the skills of the other finalist, Brenda Baca-Miller, too. She indicated that she is hoping to return to Socorro for family and other reasons anyway, so we would not be surprised to see her become part of the Socorro educator community soon.”

School district names new SHS principal