Susan Poole

Susan Poole has loved being a public educator in Arizona for the past 37 years. During her career, she has been an elementary and special education teacher in the Deer Valley School District and then went on to be an assistant principal in the Madison School District. For 20 years, Susan was the proud principal of Kyrene Middle School where she consistently led a thriving school through dramatic demographic changes and accountability expectations. She then went on to work for the Arizona Department of Education in the Title Two unit focusing on Teacher and Principal Evaluation before joining the School Improvement division, where she assisted districts all over the state and observed hundreds of classrooms.  While with ADE she had the privilege of working closely with other state departments, WestEd and ASU, supporting districts with school improvement initiatives.

Currently Susan is principal of San Carlos High School and Alternative School on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. SCHS had been consistently one of the lowest performing schools in the state.  Susan is proud to report that after just two years SCHS has earned a “C” rating from the Arizona State Board of Education.

Susan also works at ASU in the iLead program where she has taught Curriculum and Instruction during the summer intensive program and is an Academic Associate for students’ internship experience.