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Hidden Hills Welcomes New Principal

From CUSD --

The Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday night appointed Pamela Allen Sawyer, an educator with more than 30 years of experience as a teacher, coordinator, and administrator, as principal at Hidden Hills Elementary School in Laguna Niguel.

Sawyer is currently principal at Hamilton Middle School in the Long Beach Unified School District. She replaces Aida Nunez, who will retire next month.

“Pamela possesses experience developing a positive school climate, creating and maintaining channels of effective communication, and successfully supporting curriculum and instructional initiatives,” Superintendent Joe Farley said. “I look forward to her utilizing those experiences at Hidden Hills as she continues the work done in that community to improve student success.”

Sawyer began her career in education in 1982 as a first grade teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She worked as an elementary school teacher and coordinator in LAUSD until 1992, when she became an assistant principal in the Long Beach Unified School District.

In 1997, Sawyer became an elementary school principal. She has served as an elementary and middle school principal since that time.Sawyer earned her bachelor’s degree in developmental psychology from UC Santa Barbara and her master’s in school management and administration from Pepperdine University.


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