Superintendent Rebecca Miner completes her first week on the job

New Shoreline Schools Superintendent Rebecca Miner
Photo courtesy Shoreline Schools

New Superintendent Rebecca Miner joined the Shoreline School District this week.

“I am grateful to have been selected as the District's superintendent and I am enjoying settling in, meeting community and staff members and am thrilled to be beginning our work together in the District,” Miner said. 

Over the next several months Superintendent Miner will be “Hitting the Ground Listening and Learning,” according to her entry plan, as she becomes familiar with the District.

“I hope, during the course of my entry into the District, to visit every classroom, attend faculty meetings at each building, participate in community events, as well as host forums to have the opportunity to meet community members,” she said.  

For the past three years, Miner was the superintendent of the White Pass School District in Randle, Wash., near Mount Rainier. Her prior experience includes four years as assistant superintendent in the Washougal School District, where her primary focus was on teaching, learning and assessment. She served two years as special services administrator in the Vancouver Public Schools, Vancouver, Wash. Her building level experience includes serving as associate principal at Columbia River High School and McLoughlin Middle School in Vancouver.

As a teacher for nine years, she taught English, journalism, American Studies, and advised the student newspaper at Kelso High School; she taught social studies at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School and taught Spanish and Special Education at McLoughlin Middle School, both in Vancouver.

Miner earned her B.A. in English at Lake Forest College north of Chicago. She earned her Masters in Teaching at Willamette University, Salem, Ore. Her superintendent credential is from Washington State University, where she is now completing her doctorate in educational leadership. She was raised in Vancouver and graduated from Hudson’s Bay High School. Rebecca and her husband Timothy Buckley are purchasing a home in Shoreline.

She succeeds Sue Walker, who retired June 30 after eight years as superintendent, completing a 40-year career with Shoreline Schools.