After progressing through the Sonoma Valley Unified School District (SVUSD) as a student and then working for it as a teacher and an administrator for 21 years, Andrew Ryan will begin serving as a middle school principal in St. Helena at the end of the 2022-23 school year.
Ryan, SVUSD’s human resource director, will begin working at Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School, a grades K-8 school, in the St. Helena Unified School District starting July 1.
“This was a terribly difficult decision,” Ryan said. “I love Sonoma. I have appreciated educating two decades’ worth of students, many of whom I now work with! For a time, I began to think I may never leave. However, I have never had the opportunity to learn from another district, feel vulnerable in a new community, and reflect and grow in this capacity.”
Ryan said he reached his decision after having several honest…
