New principal for Echo Lake

Michelle Carroll
Photo courtesy Shoreline Schools

Michelle Kennedy Carroll has been selected as the new principal of Echo Lake Elementary School, Superintendent Sue Walker announced. The appointment is effective July 1 and is subject to approval by the Shoreline School Board.

Michelle has been an administrator in the Bellevue School District for 15 years. She has served as both a middle school and elementary school principal for 12 years and is currently the principal of Cherry Crest Elementary in Bellevue. She began her career as an elementary school teacher in the Edmonds School District.

Michelle received her bachelor of arts in education from Washington State University and her masters in school administration from Western Washington University.

She will succeed Echo Lake co-principals Mary Koontz, who is retiring this year, and Paul Shanahan, who is moving to California to be an administrator at a private school in the area where he was raised.