Webber Elementary Principal Jennifer Goethals was recently named the Region 7 Principal of the Year by the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association.

Goethals’ LOCS administrative career began in 2003 at Oakview Middle School where she was the assistant principal.

In 2008, she took over as principal of Blanche Sims Elementary School and stayed in that position until she became principal of Webber Elementary School in 2017.

In her time at LOCS Goethals has had many successes including, but not limited to, helping to implement the RTI process of collection and analyzation of student data, bringing the Blessings in a Backpack program to the district and introducing the Positivity Project to Webber Elementary.

— Megan Kelley