Linda Buckley, the principal at Tanglewood Elementary School in Lee County, received a heartwarming surprise from her school community.<\/p>\n
She was named ‘Principal of the Year’ for her dedication to inspiring the next generation of leaders.<\/p>\n
Buckley has been a leader in education for decades. Her 40 years of teaching in Lee County are documented in dozens of yearbooks she still holds.<\/p>\n
“Our ‘why’ is kids,” said Buckley. “So you have to love kids to be in education, because you’re making a positive difference in their life, and you’re preparing them for the future, because they truly are our future.”<\/p>\n
In 2016, Buckley became the principal at Tanglewood Elementary School, which she considers her second home. Now, she has been honored as ‘Principal of the Year.’<\/p>\n
“I was like, goodness gracious, what’s going on?” said Buckley. “And then when I turned the corner and I saw everybody in there, it was such a overwhelming, but yet such a special feeling, because then all of a sudden I do just flashbacks of all your years in the district.”<\/p>\n
Buckley has led Tanglewood Elementary to an ‘A’ grade school and has left a lasting impact on students and fellow teachers, who have become like family to her.<\/p>\n
“She’s here for her teachers, she’s here for her staff, she’s here for the kids,” said Robyn Shumsky, a 5th grade teacher at Tanglewood Elementary School. “You know, everybody loves her. She makes working here like home.”<\/p>\n
Buckley emphasized the importance of serving and helping others grow in their profession.<\/p>\n
“When you become a principal or an assistant principal, you know, our main goal is to serve and to help others grow and in their profession, the teachers, the paraprofessionals,” said Buckley.<\/p>\n
She expressed gratitude for her role in education.<\/p>\n
“I’m just grateful to be an educator, and I love what I do,” Buckley said.<\/p>\n
Buckley will be formally recognized as ‘Principal of the Year’ at the upcoming school board meeting on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linda Buckley, the principal at Tanglewood Elementary School in Lee County, received a heartwarming surprise from her school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325],"class_list":["post-47032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}