Dr. Tenia Pritchard

Dr. Tenia Pritchard has been employed with DC Public Schools for 24 years. She served as a teacher, dean of students, assistant principal, and then principal at Whittier Education Campus, as well as principal at Excel Academy, DCPS’ first all-girls school. She has also served as professional development facilitator for educators, an Executive Board member of the Washington Teachers Union, and the resident mentor principal. Dr. Pritchard was the winner of the Rubenstein Award for Highly Effective School Leaders and the 2018 DC Public Schools Principal of the Year, and was named a finalist for the 2018 Washington Post Principal of the Year award. She now serves as an Elementary Instructional Superintendent for Cluster 3 in DCPS. She is an alumna of several Relay programs, including Inclusive Schools Leadership Institute and Leverage Leadership Institute, and has worked with Relay coaches through a DCPS- Relay partnership since 2018.