Susan B. Griffith,
Howard County Public Schools, is the principal of Mayfield Woods Middle School. Ms. Griffith has been an educator since 1978, when she began teaching a combined fourth through sixth grade class at Wolcott Elementary School in Wolcott, Vt. After a two-year tenure, she relocated to Florida to teach emotionally handicapped fourth through sixth grade students at Calsua Elementary School in New Port Richey, Fla. In 1981, Ms. Griffith was an academic consultant for the Florida Mental Health Institute on the campus of the University of South Florida in Tampa for two years. Relocating to Colorado in 1983, she became an emotional and behavioral disorder teacher at Huron Junior High School in Northglenn, Colo. From 1984 to 1989, Ms. Griffith was a curriculum and behavior specialist for Cherry Creek Schools in Denver, Colo. She joined Howard County Public Schools in 1990 as a general and special education teacher at Hammond Middle School in Laurel, Md., where she served for three years. Ms. Griffith was assistant principal, in 1993, at Patapsco Middle School in Ellicott City, Md., until 1996, when she became assistant principal at Mayfield Woods Middle School in Elkridge, Md., for three years. In 1999, she assumed her current position. Ms. Griffith holds a BA degree in elementary education from DePauw University in Green Castle, Ind., and an MA degree in counseling from the University of South Florida in Tampa.