Administration

Hello Families and Community members,

As part of our professional practice, each year our staff identifies goals that we what to target in supporting our students. These goals are chosen using our district’s strategic action plan. This year our staff will be focusing on the below goals.

Goal 2: Responsible, Resilient, Empathetic Learners

Increase their ability to demonstrate positive social skills and resilience for a culturally diverse community and our staff will increase the number of students’ who have continuous access to an advocate, mentor, or counselor.

Goal 3: Growth for Every Student, Elimination of Outcome and Opportunity Gaps

All students who are not yet at standard in the area of mathematics will increase their proficiency by at least one year’s growth,10% school-wide, in the Numbers and Operations math strand as measured by iReady, classroom-based assessments and SBA data.

We want to engage all stakeholders as we plan how we will work and achieve our stated goals. Partnering with you will be key in being able to offer access to learning opportunities that will positively impact students. Please take a moment to provide input and feedback related to these goals and how we can work alongside you to achieve them.

Principal

Ms. Geetha George-Shapiro

Ms. George-Shapiro’s career in education began in California 22 years ago. She has since ventured to schools in upstate New York and now, Washington. Her work in mostly elementary classrooms has been rooted in equitable practices, social justice, social emotional learning, student leadership and mindfulness. However, she is most proud of the connections she has made along the way with students she now calls her friends.

Born and raised in Southeast Asia - Sabah, Malaysia (on the island of Borneo), she was well-cared for and loved by extraordinary parents. Her father, an accountant and mother an educator, raised her with the simplicity of living with what they had in this rural area. There were no hospitals within three hours, churches, or libraries nearby. As a child, she recalls looking through the large atlas her father had purchased from Reader’s Digest and made notes of places she wanted to visit or live in someday. Needless to say, that curiosity and determination led her to where she is today.

After completing high school in Malaysia, Ms. George-Shapiro moved to the United States and pursued her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and later, her Masters in Cross-Cultural Teaching. Most recently Ms. George-Shapiro earned her Masters in School Building Leadership from Columbia University.

As principal of Kenmore, her goal is to instill curiosity in our students, nurturing them to be kind to one another, and receive the skills they need to cope and thrive in our ever changing and unpredictable world.

During her spare time Ms. George-Shapiro enjoys traveling with her husband, reading, going on food crawls with friends, attending concerts, and staying active.

Ms. Geetha George-Shapiro
Principal
ggeorgeshapiro@nsd.org

Assistant Principal

Elizabeth Cano

I am happy to introduce myself to the Kenmore Cubs community!

I moved to Seattle in 2002 from Cleveland, OH where I completed my education from John Carroll University with a focus on English, education, and teaching reading. I started my career in the Edmonds School District as an English teacher. During my time in the classroom, I worked to create classroom-based interventions during the school day as well as programs like Jump Start and Small Learning Communities to reach students who would most benefit from additional supports.

I made the leap to the Northshore School District as an administrator at Bothell High School in 2015. I worked closely with staff and students to create a positive and supportive school culture including a schedule to increase daily academic interventions, co-teaching models, and revamping systems to connect with our students who most need us and break down the barriers that impede our students furthest from justice. I am passionate about mentoring teachers to grow in their profession and best support each and every student.

One of my most proud moments was the successful Nick of Time free heart-screening event. This was a passion project for me, and I couldn’t be more thankful for the team and community that helped pull this off the page. We successfully screened 567 students and potentially saved six lives by detecting heart abnormalities.

I have two kids—our daughter is 10 and our son is 9. I have extensive experience in sharing, scratches, and runny noses; I know that the rules to Four Square have drastically changed, I still jump rope, shoot hoops, and play Shadow Tag; I know learning comes easy for some kids and for other kids they need tips and encouragement to know how capable they can be.

I live with positivity—it feeds my soul to acknowledge the great work educators do and call out the goodness I see in our students every day. I firmly believe our collective success is linked together.

Elizabeth Cano
Assistant Principal
ecano@nsd.org

Office Manager

Secretaries

School Counselor

Hello! My name is Samantha Nunes and I am the school counselor at Kenmore Elementary!

This is my seventh year as an elementary counselor and my 3rd year here at Kenmore. Prior to that I worked with preschool aged children. At Kenmore I love teaching classroom counseling lessons, running groups and meeting with students one-on-one to help students learn about and grow their own social emotional skills. I enjoy going to parks, baking cupcakes and I love spending time with my son.

For more information about how a school counselor can help and some resources focusing on social emotional learning please visit my website: https://sites.google.com/apps.nsd.org/kecounseling/home

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