Who’s the Boss

Katie Bauer is one of my closest friends. We met on Hurricane Island when I was an intern in the Bosun’s Locker, working under her. She stayed in the area and I eventually returned. She was an award-winning teacher for years in our district, first teaching at the elementary school and ending her teaching career at the middle school where I was principal. About seven years ago, she and her husband took a great leap of faith and relocated to Eluethera where she became principal of a small, private middle school there affiliated with the Cape Eluethera Research Institute and the Island School. After three years there, they returned and Katie landed a job as our elementary school assistant principal, the position she currently holds. I wanted to have a conversation with her about what that decision to uproot her life meant to her and how it impacted her career in education.