The Board of Trustees of Christopher Dock Mennonite High School (Dock) today announced that Principal Elaine A. Moyer has accepted the position of Associate Director of Mennonite Education Agency, the oversight organization for education in Mennonite Church USA, and will be concluding her service to Dock at the end of the school year.
“Elaine has faithfully served Dock for the last 26 years—the past 20 in the role of principal,” said J. Philip Bergstresser, chair of the Dock Board of Trustees. “Throughout her tenure, Elaine led the school through significant growth, while strengthening our mission and boldly opening doors to Christ-centered education in our area.”
Moyer is Dock’s fifth chief administrator, and the first woman to fill the role of principal. Her participatory leadership style affirms people in their gifts and abilities. Under her leadership, Dock has built a strong leadership team that will serve the students and community well for years to come.
“Elaine has cultivated a vibrant community of faculty, students, parents and administrators who are committed to excellence in learning, from an Anabaptist/Mennonite perspective,” said Martin Wiens, Dock’s assistant principal.
Over the past 26 years Elaine played a key role in growing and enhancing Dock’s mission, while also championing Anabaptist education and ideals in our region, and around the country. She collaborated with Penn View Christian School and Quakertown Christian Schools to align K-12 curriculum and create the GPS 2012: Boldly Opening Doors to Christ-Centered Mennonite Education strategic plan. Elaine also played a key role in creating the Mennonite edition of Validating the Vision, an accreditation tool used by the Middle States Association, and serves on the Executive Committee of Mennonite Schools Council, a national body dedicated to advancing Anabaptist education.
At Dock, Elaine worked with faculty to enhance the learning experience, introducing such programs as Building Community, which provides students with opportunities to build healthy relationships within the school community and exposes them to service opportunities in the broader community and the world. She also successfully led multimillion-dollar campaigns to build the Longacre Center, which includes a theater, gym and fitness center; the stadium and field house; art building; maintenance building; caretaker’s house; and most recently the Rosenberger Academic Center which includes state-of-the-art science, computer and family and consumer science labs, a library and a guidance suite.
“I have been blessed by the experiences and relationships that Dock has afforded me,” said Moyer. “My love for and commitment to Mennonite education was supported and allowed to flourish. After this school year, I will leave Dock in excellent hands, and will pray for God’s continued blessing on Dock’s mission of developing ‘the God-given abilities of our students, in preparation for responsible stewardship of life as members of God’s people in a global society.’”
The Board has established a Transition Committee that will develop and oversee a leadership transition plan and recruit the next principal for Dock.
“Elaine has built an outstanding team that will ensure continuity of our mission and help to take us to new heights in the future,” continued Bergstresser. “We are grateful to Elaine for her service, and look forward to working with her in her new role with Mennonite Education Agency.”
For more information about the upcoming transition click here to download a letter from J. Philip Bergstresser.
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