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Dr. Aleisha McCallie is the principal at Tyner MIddle Academy. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Aleisha McCallie started her career in engineering but quickly left the field to pursue her lifelong calling to teach.<\/p>\n

Now the principal of Tyner Middle Academy, McCallie rose from the classroom to education\u2019s version of the boardroom thanks, in part, to the School Leadership post-master\u2019s program she completed at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2020.<\/p>\n

The skills, industry expertise and state license she got through UTC allowed McCallie to make her first move from teacher to assistant principal in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cUTC had a perfect way to make sure my options weren\u2019t limited in climbing the corporate ladder of education. What I learned at UTC was priceless coming into an administrative role,\u201d McCallie said.<\/p>\n

Her 16-year career in public schools has been fueled much more by passion than by earning potential, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEducation is freedom. It\u2019s choices, something nobody can take away from you.\u201d<\/p>\n

A born math whiz, McCallie was a de-facto teacher to friends in school growing up, first in Ohio and then in Chattanooga, where she moved with her family in the second grade.<\/p>\n

The north-to-south culture shock hit her hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went from being encouraged to be a thinker and to have a voice to being silenced\u2026I quickly learned Southern culture to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was difficult and dismaying, but McCallie remained determined to help written-off classmates learn algebra and geometry, subjects that came naturally to her.<\/p>\n

That experience in childhood carried over into her first days as a teacher and stays with her to this day. It reminds her never to let any student fall through the cracks, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to bridge the gaps in life and make them see that school is a purposeful experience. I help students realize they have a purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the same way that McCallie has always believed in her students, others have believed in her.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the years, I had principals and colleagues tell me I should become a principal when I didn\u2019t see it myself,\u201d McCallie said.<\/p>\n

She earned an EdD in 2016 and was appointed to Tyner Middle Academy in 2022.<\/p>\n

Barry Kamrath, head of the UTC School Leadership program, said McCallie is a leader who \u201cjust gets it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAleisha has got an intangible \u2018it\u2019 factor and a lot of it has to do with her ability to understand the struggle that students go through. Her career reflects that; she is already a principal,\u201d Kamrath said.<\/p>\n

McCallie said her strengths as a school leader are her \u201cType A\u201d personality, which drives her knack for \u201cgetting things done\u201d and her instinctive care for students.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey come into my office and it\u2019s welcoming and they can take a breather and talk to me\u2026I live to see them leave my office standing a little taller, even if it just keeps them out of trouble for a moment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her advice for kids and adults alike: \u201cAlways be like a duck; above the water you\u2019re poised while underwater your feet are always moving.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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