Alan Sturrock,
Calvert County Public Schools, is the principal of Sunderland Elementary School. Dr. Sturrock began his career in education in 1971, as an English teacher at St. Columbia°s School in Perth, Scotland. From 1974 to 1977, he was a classroom teacher and language arts coordinator teaching combination classes at St. John°s Elementary School in Perth, Scotland. In 1977, Dr. Sturrock moved to South America and was the director of English and drama at St. George°s College in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he remained for two years. From 1979 to 1981, he was a graduate teaching assistant at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Mass. In 1981, Dr. Sturrock was the coordinator of freshman writing and the acting chair of liberal arts at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Mass., where he remained for two years. From 1985 to 1986, he was the acting elementary language arts curriculum coordinator for kindergarten through eighth grade in the Brookline Public School System in Brookline, Mass. In 1986, Dr. Sturrock was the director of the Baker Demonstration School of the National College of Education in Evanston, Ill., where he remained for two years. From 1988 to 1990, he was the principal of F.E. Bellows Elementary School in Rye Neck, N.Y. In 1990, he joined Calvert County Public Schools and assumed his present position. Dr. Sturrock holds a BEd degree from Dundee University in Dundee, Scotland, an MAT degree from Duke University in Durham, N.C., and an EdD from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.