Greenfield Associate Principal Leaving for Greendale School

The Greendale School District has named a replacement for departing Highland View principal Leni Dietrich.

Tracy Flater, an associate principal at Maple Grove Elementary School in Greenfield, will take over at Highland View after the Greendale School Board unanimously approved her appointment Monday.

Flater was in her position at Maple Grove for just one school year.

"We are pleased to welcome Ms. Flater to Greendale schools," Greendale Superintendent John Tharp said in a news release. "She has been an instructional leader in her schools and we are confident she will provide leadership in educational practices as she connects with students and families at Highland View."

Flater will work with Dietrich in June during her transition to the position, the district said in a news release. Dietrich is leaving at the end of the school year to become director of curriculum and instruction at St. Anthony's School in Milwaukee.

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Before entering her position in Greenfield, Flater spent 13 years as a third- and fourth-grade teacher in the Muskego-Norway School District.

Flater graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a bachelor's degree in elementary education and a minor in special education. She has a master's degree in educational leadership from Marian University.

Flater's departure adds to a long list of holes needed to be filled by the Greenfield School District in the coming months. The district, which selected Lisa Elliott as its new superintendent last month, is in the process of finding a new business manager, principals at both Maple Grove and Glenwood and two other administrators.