Dr. Erika Endrijonas has formally stepped into her function of superintendent/president of Santa Barbara Metropolis School (SBCC), as of Tuesday, August 1, taking her place as SBCC’s fifth superintendent-president since 2019 and taking up for interim superintendent-president Kindred Murillo.
For Endrijonas, the function is a type of homecoming. She beforehand served because the Metropolis School’s dean of profession and technical providers from 2000 to 2009. After that, she served as the manager vp of Oxnard School, president of Los Angeles Valley School, and most not too long ago, superintendent-president of Pasadena Metropolis School since January 2019.
“My first week again at SBCC has been fantastic,” Endrijonas stated in SBCC’s announcement on Monday. “I had my sights set on returning to SBCC for over a decade, and I’m nonetheless pinching myself that my dream turned a actuality. I’ve began to satisfy of us right here on campus — some for the primary time, some I haven’t seen in 14 years — and it does really feel like I’ve come residence. I stay up for the subsequent few weeks on campus as we launch our fall 2023 semester and as I begin to meet members of our local people who maintain a particular place of their hearts for SBCC.”
Town faculty spent practically two years looking for the correct candidate to fill the function, earlier than choosing Endrijonas in Might. Murillo held the place since 2021 and is on contract till September 6, which will probably be her remaining day. There will probably be some overlap between the 2 management positions, however Murillo stated that she and Endrijonas have chosen to work collectively as a “bridge” between their management.
“I’m very excited for her and for SBCC as I’ve hope for all of you in changing into the school you are supposed to be,” Murillo stated in her farewell letter emailed to the inner SBCC worker neighborhood. “Simply as people are works in progress, so are faculties, particularly 109-year-old faculties.
“Typically we’ve got to expertise a cycle of renewal, and I imagine SBCC has been shifting by way of a big interval of ache and renewal, and whereas not good, it’s a part of a progress cycle,” she continued. “I hope you’ll proceed to construct the power and sense of delight and function you as soon as had, solely as a extra equitable, numerous, inclusive, accessible, and anti-racist establishment of upper training.”
