Sunrise Valley Gets an Interim Principal

Tim Stanley has been named the interim principal at Sunrise Valley Elementary. He replaces Elizabeth English, who is retiring at the end of July after 10 years at the school.

Fairfax County Public Schools had been searching for a replacement for English, but needs more time to conduct a proper search, Cluster 8 Superintendent Fabio Zuluaga told SVES families in an email on Thursday.

Stanley is a longtime FCPS educator, whose wife, Melanie Stanley, retired from SVES as the assistant principal several years ago.

Stanley most recently served as principal of Freedom Hill Elementary School from 2006 until his retirement in 2012.  Prior to that he was the assistant principal (2004-2006) and instructional coach (2001-2004) at Parklawn Elementary School.  

In 1999, Stanley was nominated as Fairfax County Public Schools Teacher of the Year. In 2005, he received the Nancy Sprague First Year Administrator Award, and in 2008 he was nominated to be FCPS Outstanding First Year Principal.