Marcia Heberle has spent nearly 30 years solving the education puzzle

Retiring young for ‘family time’

West Elementary School Prinicipal Marcia Heberle talks to a reporter Friday afternoon in her office in Jefferson City. Heberle will retire from a 30-year education career at the end of this school year. Photo by Kelley McCall.

By Bob Watson

Monday, December 20, 2010

West Elementary Principal Marcia Heberle has been teaching for nearly three decades, and she’s been an administrator for more than half of that time. It’s a career she had not planned on pursuing.

Being a principal, she said, “is like dumping a puzzle upside down every day — and then trying to put the puzzle back together.”

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One issue she faces regularly is that parents and grandparents don’t always understand how schools work today.

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gofish 2 years, 5 months ago

Marcia Heberle is by far THE BEST PRINCIPAL in the JC Public Schools. I've never met or dealt with another principal that is more kind, level headed, and reasonable than Mrs. Heberle. She understands kids and is very diplomatic in her approach to parents. She treated me and my child with respect and I am forever grateful. A 5th grade teacher, Mrs. Sullivan is another Gem at West Elementary.