Thu, Nov 26 2009
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Educators slide into jobs as principals at Cecil Floyd, Stapleton Earlier this year, Edman was named principal of Cecil Floyd as Adams retired, and Rogers was named principal of Stapleton Elementary, Joplin’s second largest elementary school, as principal Marilyn Alley retired.
They both started their new jobs July 1. Big responsibility Both Edman and Rogers said this new step into principalship carries a lot of responsibility with it. In their respective buildings, the buck will stop with them. “You’re always solving problems,” Edman said. “My e-mail volume has increased by a lot already,” Rogers said on his first official day as principal. Rogers said he looks forward to setting forth vision and strategies as he leads the school and still being around in five and 10 years to see them play out. Edman said she is most excited about leading her team of teachers and said she wants to reach behind her and help other teachers become administrators. “I had a lot of different leaders helping me through this process,” she said. “I would love to continue to support these folks who are thinking about taking that next step.” While both Edman and Rogers said there are things they miss about being inside the classroom, they said they love the feeling of helping a larger community of learners grow and teachers feel successful. Rogers describes it as “going behind the curtain” to see how the education show works. Edman talks about “seeing more of the bigger picture.” “I can get up and start to think about my day and all the things I need to do and how we’re going to address things, and then, the first student comes up to me and says, ‘Mrs. Edman’, and it all goes away,” Edman said. “Then I realize again, this is why I do what I do.” Personal lives Edman and Rogers both grew up in Carthage and actually rubbed shoulders early on. When Edman was in high school, she taught a preschool and kindergarten swimming class. Rogers was one of her little swimmers. The two joke back and forth about the differences in their ages and how they came to their first principalships at the same time by seeming coincidence. 
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