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The Mountain View Whisman School District has hired new principals to take over at Graham Middle School and Vargas Elementary School, both of whom will start next school year.
Superintendent Jeff Baier announced at a special school board meeting on Tuesday that officials chose Aimee Malcolm to fill the vacant position at Graham and selected Carly Sturm for the open spot at Vargas. Both women have over a decade of educational leadership experience, with Malcolm currently serving as an assistant principal in Burlingame and Sturm as a principal in Sunnyvale, according to an email from Baier sent to families and staff.
In a 4-0 vote, with Bill Lambert absent, the school board approved the hires at its March 31 meeting.
“We are thrilled to be filling these positions with such high-quality candidates,” board member Devon Conley said.
The principals at both Graham and Vargas left their posts midway through this school year, and district-level administrators have been filling the vacancies on an interim basis.
Sebastian Benavidez resigned from his role leading Graham at the end of December after taking a leave of absence beginning in mid-November. Acantha Aragon Contreras then left her role as principal at Vargas in January, so that she could spend more time caring for a family member. Aragon Contreras shifted to teaching special education at Bubb Elementary School.
Malcolm will come to Graham from Burlingame High School, where she currently serves as assistant principal, Baier’s email said. Before assuming that post, she worked in the Hayward Unified School District as a literacy administrator and an assistant principal of curriculum and instruction. She also has experience teaching English language arts.
Sturm is currently principal at Lakewood Elementary School in Sunnyvale. She’s been in that position since 2021, according to her LinkedIn page. For a couple of years prior to that, she worked as an elementary instructional coach for the Union School District in San Jose.
Before choosing Malcolm and Sturm, the district went through a lengthy outreach and interview process, Baier said. He and Erin Green, the district’s director of human resources, gathered input from the parents and staff at both schools to determine what they were looking for in a new leader.
“They want principals that are highly involved, engaged with their kids, communicative, understand the role of leading the community … and really just being a part of the fabric of what happens at the schools,” Baier told the Voice.
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