Briedwell named SJSD Principal of the Year
Students packed the Lake Contrary Elementary School gymnasium Thursday afternoon to congratulate their principal Dr. Jasmine Briedwell on being named the St. Joseph School District Principal of the Year.
“I was very surprised and very happy,” said Briedwell. “We vote as a group at the beginning of the school year so I knew that part of it but this was a complete surprise.”
Briedwell was nominated and chosen as Principal of the year by her peers in the Northwest District. She is now headed to a conference this weekend for the Missouri Association of Elementary School Principals to see who will win at the state level out of around 11 other candidates.
“I think you always have to be a teacher at heart and not forget what that’s like,” said Briedwell. “And really understand what it’s like to be a student and not forget that either.”