Robert L. Hindman,
Arlington Public Schools, is the principal of Zachary Taylor Elementary School. He began his career in education in 1976, as a program and aquatics director for the Brandywine Valley YMCA in Coatesville, Pa. From 1978 to 1980, he was an elementary adaptive physical education teacher at the Devereaux Foundation in Devon, Pa., The foundation is the largest of its kind in the world, educating neurologically and brain injured children. In 1980, Mr. Hindman was a high school health, physical education and adaptive teacher at Washington Township High School in Sewell, N.J., a position he held for two years. He moved to Virginia in 1984, and for four years taught elementary physical education at Abingdon Elementary School in Arlington, Va. Mr. Hindman then became a classroom teacher in 1988, where he taught third grade at Taylor Elementary School. In 1989, he returned to New Jersey and taught physical education and health for kindergarten through fifth grade at the Bragg School in Chester, N.J., where he also held the position of treasurer of the Chester Township Education Association. In 1993,
he was promoted to supervisor of K-12 health and physical education for the Roxbury Township of New Jersey Schools. One year later, Mr. Hindman accepted the position as the health and physical education teacher at the Lakeside Drive School for Hearing Impaired Students in Mountain Lakes, N.J. He was soon promoted in 1995, to assistant principal of Mountain Lakes High School. In 1996, Mr. Hindman returned to Virginia and Taylor Elementary School as a fourth and fifth grade classroom teacher. He was promoted to assistant principal of Taylor Elementary in 1998, and four months later assumed his present position. He holds a BS degree in health, physical and safety education from West Chester State College in Pennsylvania, and an MEd degree in administration and supervision from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.