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Geer said that becoming principal was something that she had never given any thought to until it was mentioned to her by former Decherd principal, Chris Hawkersmith. She knew she both needed and wanted to go back to school, but she wanted to seek a concentration in behavioral education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI wanted to work with students who had different behaviors, to help them in the classroom,\u201d said Geer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hawkersmith advised her that she could work with behavioral needs students while also pursuing a career as principal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2020, Geer was set to graduate Western Governors University with a master\u2019s in educational leadership when she learned that assistant principal, Allison Dietz, was leaving to take another position.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt that time, I stepped up to an assistant principal role,\u201d she explained. \u201cFor that year, I served as an assistant principal and RTI interventionist. The following fall, the county adjusted the role to be a learning loss coordinator, and I was able to retain my assistant principal duties.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hawkersmith consulted with Geer when he announced that he would be leaving the school to take another position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen he decided to take the position of coordinator of school health, I asked him what that meant for me,\u201d she said. \u201cHe replied by asking, \u2018\u2019What did I want it to mean for me? Did I want to pursue something different or did I want to pursue becoming the principal of Decherd?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can guess what her answer was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s kind of unreal and hasn\u2019t really set in yet,\u201d she said.\u201dI think it\u2019s been God\u2019s plan all along. I\u2019ve tried to follow where He\u2019s shown me to go, and the path He has taken me on has led to here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Geer said she is excited about the future and is ready to make Decherd the best it can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne thing that I want to do is to build leaders,\u201d she explained. \u201cBuild leaders in both the teachers and the students. It\u2019s not going to be a one-day thing or one-year thing. Rather, it\u2019s going to be an ongoing adventure that we continue to build on year after year.\u201d GN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CONFETTI, APPLAUSE, and the cheers of hundreds of students were heard when Megan Geer was named principal for Decherd Elementary. The unveiling of her new position took place the morning before the school\u2019s end of the year talent showcase. While Geer did not expect the news to take place with such fanfare, she was overwhelmed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n