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School Staff of the Year - 2015

Phallon Lattimore

Phallon LattimoreA native Washingtonian, Ms. Phallon Lattimore is the second of three generations in her family to attend DC Public Schools. She attended Amidon-Bowen Elementary School, Jefferson Middle School, and Duke Ellington School of the Arts High School. After college, Ms. Lattimore returned to DCPS to begin her career and her family. After seven years as a DCPS employee, she is now the Director of School Strategy and Logistics (DSL) at Marie Reed Elementary School where her two children attend school in the Dual Language program. In this position, Ms. Lattimore serves as a mentor and role model. According to her school leadership team, she works tirelessly to ensure that the school is in top condition for the students and staff, facilitating regular, goal-oriented meetings, and finding time to provide recognition and support for all of her staff.

Ms. Lattimore began her career in DCPS in 2008 as a substitute teacher. A year later she developed the dance curriculum for the Career Pathways Program, recruiting and training most of the teachers for the program. From there, Ms. Lattimore continued to assist in developing curriculum by transitioning into an Afterschool Coordinator role at Sousa Middle School and then School Without Walls High School. Finally, she served as the Business Manager at Marie Reed for three years. In that time she was groomed for the DSL role under the strong leadership of Superintendent Eugene Pinkard and the Director of the Strategic School Operations Program at Marie Reed, Stephanie Byrd. Now in her first year as the DSL at Marie Reed, she has “drastically improved systems for procurement, budgeting, substitute management, and facilities management,” according to her principal. While the students and staff deeply appreciate Ms. Lattimore’s hard work, she is the one who feels blessed. In Ms. Lattimore’s words, “I just love Marie Reed! Everything about it. I also love that I'm working for an organization that poured so much into me. I’m humbled that I get to give back to the city that shaped me.”