Metro Nashville Public Schools is excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Terry Shrader as the new principal of Hillsboro High School. Shrader is currently the principal at Centennial High School in Williamson County.
Shrader began his career as a mathematics teacher at Hillsboro before teaching at Franklin High School and serving as assistant principal and principal at Franklin’s Freedom Middle School. He has been principal of Centennial High since 2002.
“I am very excited about my new opportunity as principal of Hillsboro,” said Shrader. “The Hillsboro High School community is a wonderful place for students, parents, teachers and the community to come together and focus on our students’ academic achievement. I cannot wait to get started. Go Burros!”
Under his direction, Centennial High has seen the following innovations and accomplishments:
- Implemented a plan to develop individual student improvement for ACT content standards
- Increased ACT composite by 0.5 points in one academic year (ACT states that any increase over 0.2 in one academic year is statistically significant)
- Collaboratively developed a Freshman Academy that reduced 9th grade failure rate from 22.6% to 11.5% in a two year period
- Increased enrollment in Advanced Placement classes by 30% and maintained an 80% rate of students receiving college credit
- Implemented Positive Behavior Support, Capturing Kid’s Hearts, and Challenge Day programs to improve School Climate Scores – resulting in the highest rate in the school’s history
- Continued to meet all Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goals of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in a school where the socio-economically disadvantaged population doubled over a two year period
- Met all graduation rate goals of NCLB
- Recipient of the Tennessee Department of Education Incentive Award for academic improvement at both the middle school and high school level.
Shrader has also served on multiple accreditation teams for AdvancED, the Southeastern United States accrediting agency; and served as an educational consultant in Yei, Southern Sudan, Africa. In addition, he has led a strategic planning process for administrators and teachers and participated in a teacher training institute in various other areas of Southern Sudan.
“Hillsboro is a wonderful, vibrant school that is rich in diversity and has a strong community connection and parental support,” said Jay Steele, MNPS Associate Superintendent for High Schools. “Terry is an excellent administrator and I know he will do an excellent job as principal. I am very happy he has agreed to rejoin our district and look forward to working with him.”
Shrader replaces Rod Manuel, Hillsboro’s principal for the past three years, who will assume another position in the district to be announced at a future date.
