Details

First Name

Mike

Last Name

Donnelly

Pronouns

he/him

Name Pronunciation

Don e lee

Nickname

Mike

District

Retired from Springfield School District

City and State

Eugene, Oregon

Experience

My experience in education includes:

Elementary teacher & middle school coach in a parochial K-8 school in Springfield, Oregon; 1974-78

Elementary Teacher, including blended classroom experience at Centennial Elementary School, Springfield, Oregon. 1978-1991. During this time I served as chair of the District Wellness Committee, and earned a masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Oregon.

Principal of St. Paul’s K-8 school in Eugene, Oregon. Enrollment was about 260 students. 1991-1995.

Elementary Principal in the Springfield School District, 1995-2013. I served as principal of our rural K-5 schools for two years. I then served as principal of K-5 Title 1 schools, Moffitt Elementary 1997-2002, and Centennial Elementary 2002-2013.

During my tenure at Centennial, we received recognition as a Champion School from the Oregon Department of Education, and I was chosen as Oregon National Distinguished Principal in 2011.