Jay Cason:  

After a 33-year career in public education, I retired in 2001. My time as a public school educator included several years as a teacher and coach, 17 years as a high school principal and 7 as a superintendent. I especially enjoyed my principal years, possibly because it was where I felt most comfortable having spent so much of my time there as a high school student. I then worked eight years as a writer for a newspaper in Central Kentucky where I won 14 Kentucky Press Awards for writing and/or photography. I've led a very fortunate life to date, far better than I could have ever anticipated. Most of my education career was spent in Wyoming and Michigan. During my time as its principal, Jackson Hole High School earned distinction as a National Blue Ribbon School and I was recognized by President Reagan in the White House's Rose Garden. As Grand Haven High School principal in Michigan, the cultural diversity program I designed was bestowed the Spirit of the Holiday Award by the Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation. At the time it was bestowed, Grand Haven High was the only high school to be so honored. I received the award in Washington D.C. from then-Attorney General Janet ...Expand for more