Deanna Ray Hayes has retired
as director of instruction for the Wayland Union School District.
Hayes, 57, who had been in that administrative position since 2006, was earning a salary of just over $106,500 per year.
Reports also have surfaced that the development has come at the same time there has been some administrative restructuring. Two examples are that Robyn Robinson, coordinator of the Career Connections Academy, has been moved to assistant principal at Wayland Middle School under Carolyn Whyte, replacing Teresa Fulk, who will remain as full-time director of technology and media services.
Hayes came to the Wayland school district in August 1994 as a math and science teaching consultant after a two-year stint as an instructor at Western Michigan University. She served as a consultant here for four years before taking a post in 1998 as principal at Steeby Elementary.
Hayes earned her bachelor’s degree in general science and elementary education from Seattle Pacific University and then picked up her master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the same school in 1980.
The posting for her clerical aide is listed as “Part Time Instructional Compliance Specialist, Secretarial/Clerical/Business Office Clerk.
Fulk, who earned a bachelor’s degree from Central Michigan University in 2002 and a master’s degree in instructional technology from Wayne State University, came to Wayland in 2007. She taught math for three years at Wayland Middle School and then was named technology teacher consultant, after which she was selected as director of technology and media services, succeeding Mark Washington. She had served as assistant principal at the middle school for four years.
Fulk also has a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Michigan-Flint.
Robinson is home grown. The daughter of former local elementary principal Jack Wallington, she graduated from Wayland High School and after earning collegiate degrees returned to teach special education.
She is married to Wayland High School science teacher David Robinson.
One of Robinson’s most treasured students was the late Doug Mitchell, who died at age 17.
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Interesting… You know what Deanna really did for the school was all the nasty lengthy paper work for all the state grants, reporting to the state, kid counts and interpretation of the testing results (that the principals did not understand but she did)… Who is doing that now? She was worth more than her salary by far, bringing in hundreds of thousand of dollars each year to the district. Tough replacement, or will there be one?
Sounds like another short-sighted, rock solid leadership muck up decision by the dynamic duo.
Question: how many administrators actually live in the district… or neighboring districts even? There is your problem… when administrators of schools are not actually part of the community.
Deanna lived here, so that’s one less person who really cared about what was going on at Wayland schools.
Wayland Joe, you are so right- between school administrators and city officials, we need more to live within the city/district/nearby townships. They don’t have any “skin in the game” when they don’t live here. I suspect many don’t want to live here because the taxes are so high. Can’t blame them, I don’t like them either. Taxes on residential property goes like this in West Michigan; East Grand Rapids, Rockford, Wayland! You didn’t know you lived in luxury?