THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, May 26, 1996 TAG: 9605240239
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 20 EDITION: FINAL
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Nell Richardson, assistant principal at Princess Anne High School, has been named ``Assistant Principal of the Year'' for the city.
Richardson received her undergraduate degree at Randolph-Macon Woman's College and her master's and certificate of advanced study at Old Dominion University. She was a teacher for a number of years, served as principal of Alliance Christian High School in Portsmouth for four years and was appointed assistant principal of Princess Anne in 1985.
One of the casualties of the fire was the master schedule for the school's 1,900 students. Almost overnight, Richardson had to deal with the rescheduling for teachers and students alike, condensing the schedule for the shortened school day, shuffling classes into a new building and portable classrooms and then factoring in the block-scheduling program. When school opened 11 days after the fire, just about every student had a schedule.
At Princess Anne, Richardson has played a key role in initiating several major programs, which have impacted instruction. Among them are the integration of the Princess Anne Center for Pregnant Teens' program into the mainstream of the high school, the ``School Within a School'' model for ninth-grade at-risk students and block-scheduling. ILLUSTRATION: Nell Richardson by CNB