Meet new Shoreline Schools Supt. Rebecca Miner at Shorecrest, Shorewood

Rebecca Miner
Superintendent of Shoreline Schools

Over the past four months new Shoreline Schools Superintendent Miner has been “Hitting the Ground Listening and Learning,” according to her entry plan, as she becomes familiar with the District. She has been visiting classrooms, attending faculty meetings at each building and participating in many school and community events.

Miner will hold forums at Shorecrest and Shorewood High School to get feedback from the community on four key questions in her entry plan:

1. What should I know about Shoreline Public Schools and the Shoreline and Lake Forest Park communities?
2. What should be preserved in the Shoreline Public Schools?
3. What are the key issues facing our school system which need attention?
4. How can I be most helpful in my role as superintendent?

Superintendent Rebecca Miner’s entry plan 

The forums at the high schools will be held in conjunction with the schools' PTSA meetings those evenings.

• Shorecrest: Tuesday, Nov. 18, 7 p.m. in the school library.
• Shorewood: Tuesday, Dec. 2, 7 p.m. in the career center.

Miner joined Shoreline on July 1 after three years as the superintendent of the White Pass School District in Randle, Wash. Her prior experience includes four years as assistant superintendent in the Washougal School District. She served two years as special services administrator in the Vancouver Public Schools, Vancouver, Wash. Her building level experience included 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.