Ray Anderson

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  Ray Anderson has been an educator and principal for thirty-five years in the Arlington Public Schools.Ray has special skills in identifying student personalities and learning styles through long-established interviewing techniques.He is the founder of H-B Woodlawn, annually ranked by Newsweek and the Washington Post as among the nation's top public schools.He is also an active member of the Virginia and DC Bar.

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  College application advice with Ray Anderson and AGM College Advisors
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  Presenter and Credentials:AGM-College Advisors LLC, which includes Ray Anderson, retired principal at H-B Woodlawn, and member of the Bar in DC and Va.

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  Principals: Eric J. Young, Donald L. Davenport, Ray J. Anderson, Carl E. Lundstrom, Douglas W. Gray, Tom C. Poeling

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  "She's an extremely dedicated student," said H-B Woodlawn principal Ray Anderson."She had to work her way up from the Arlington science fair, through the state science fair, and so on, up to the international fair."
  
  "She's the perfect science student - very curious about the way things work, but also extremely careful and thorough," Dodge said."A student like that really keeps a teacher on their toes, because if I'm sloppy at all, I'll hear about it."

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  Ray Anderson, principal, H-B Woodlawn program.

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  * Ray Anderson, principal of the H-B Woodlawn Program, and Woodlawn students Carrie Dulaney, Kate Kramer, Emily Newhook, Oliver Nakad and Ceanna Van Eaton presented a program called "H-B Woodlawn, Democracy in Action" at the 2003 conference of the Institute for Democracy in Education, held recently at Ohio University.

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  H-B Woodlawn founder Ray Anderson will retire at the end of the year, to be replaced by Frank Haltiwanger.
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  -Ray Anderson, H-B Woodlawn principal and founder
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  Woodlawn principal Ray Anderson, 63, who wrote the original proposal for Woodlawn's alternative high school program and has served as the school's principal since its inception in 1971, is retiring at the end of this school year.
  
  BUT FEAR SUBSIDED last week, when School Board members named Woodlawn's new principal - the school's second.Frank Haltiwanger, a former Woodlawn teacher and parent currently serving as middle school administrator, will take the reigns from Anderson at the end of the year.
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  His history with H-B means Haltiwanger is already in synch with the school's individual culture, said Anderson.
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  After watching the protests of the late 1960s, Anderson wanted to find room for students who were being squeezed out at other county schools, students who "in one way or another were questioning the status quo," he said."When I proposed the school, it was to take those people on the edge, who were not fitting in in regular, comprehensive high schools and put them somewhere else."It was an experiment, and Anderson himself wasn't sure it would succeed."I wasn't sure I could stay in a comprehensive high school.So I took the LSAT," the Law School Admissions Test, he said.By the time the School Board approved the alternative school on Ma 27, 1971, Anderson had already gotten accepted at several law schools around the country."I opted to go to [George Washington University] law school at night," he said.
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  "Minor Threat played here," said Anderson, "but we had all kinds of groups play: Experience Unlimited, the big go-go band, the Road Ducks, kind of a Lynyrd Skynyrd band.Their idea was, you're supposed to have fistfights [at the show].They didn't do that here."In the last decade, the success of Woodlawn students has drawn more ambitious parents and students to the program."Suddenly, everybody wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer," said Anderson.But in recent years, he's seen the school come full circle."It's back to politics this year," he said."We had a fellow who went up to New Hampshire, to campaign for Clark."
  
  WATCHING THAT CYCLE roll around again, Anderson decided it was finally time to retire.Rumors that he was ready to leave have flown through the county over the last few years, and in 2001, they were almost true. "I had thought at one point of retiring when I was 60," said Anderson."But I wasn't really ready to let go."This year, however, he looked at the teachers coming into the school, and looked at who was retiring.Many of the school's earliest teachers are gone, and the rest are soon leaving - it was a natural moment for transition, Anderson said.He and his wife will continue to live in Arlington.But he wants to travel, and will begin with a tour of Eastern and Central Europe with his wife in July.They will also visit their children: Anderson's oldest daughter Lynne is a local, his son Peter lives in Chicago, and daughter Heather lives in Los Angeles.There will be some legal volunteer work, putting his law degree to use, and Anderson will start a part-time business with partners, counseling high school students about how to choose a college, and how to get in.And 33 years after politics led him to open a school, Anderson will finally get personally involved.

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  Ray Andersonranderson@agm-collegeadvisors.com 703-532-3830

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  Ray Anderson
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  Ray Anderson is the founder and recently retired principal of a secondary school that is consistently ranked among the best public schools in the US.Ray has special skills in identifying student personalities and learning styles through long-established interviewing techniques developed during his thirty-five year career in public schools.He is also an active member of the Virginia Bar and DC Bar.

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  Ray Anderson, a UUCA member since 1988, served on the Interim Task Force and helped UUCA use its office space more efficiently.He retired in July 2004 from his position as principal of H-B Woodlawn School, where he interviewed and hired more than 100 teachers, custodians, and secretaries over 33 years.

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