Brenda L. Hurbanis,
Anne Arundel County Public Schools, is the principal of Brooklyn Park Middle School. Dr. Hurbanis began her career in education in 1972 as a fifth grade teacher at Smithsburg Middle School in Smithsburg, Md. From 1974 to 1977, she taught fifth grade at Meade Heights Elementary School in Fort George G. Meade, Md., and language arts for gifted and talented students at Old Mill Middle School in Millersville, Md. In 1977, Dr. Hurbanis was promoted to guidance counselor at Old Mill where she remained for two years. From 1979 to 1981, she continued as a guidance counselor at Corkran Junior High School in Glen Burnie, Md. In 1981, Dr. Hurbanis became a guidance resource counselor for the instructional leadership program for the Anne Arundel County Public School System and went on to become a team coordinator from 1984 to 1990. In 1990, she was a guidance counselor at Freetown and Ferndale Elementary Schools and in 1991 moved to Glendale and Woodside Elementary Schools all located in Glen Burnie, Md. From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Hurbanis was assistant principal at Freetown Elementary, High Point Elementary in Pasadena, Md., and Point Pleasant and Hilltop Elementary Schools in Glen Burnie, Md. In 1998, she was promoted to principal at Overlook Elementary School in Linthicum, Md., where she remained until 2000 when she assumed her present position. Dr. Hurbanis holds a BS degree in elementary education from Frostburg State College in Frostburg, Md., an MEd in guidance and counseling from Western Maryland College in Frostburg, Md., and an EdD degree in administration and supervision from the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.