New principals appointed to lead 4 Ann Arbor elementary schools

Four Ann Arbor elementary schools will have new principals when students report in the fall.

Three of the district’s principals retired, and a fourth left for a job in Texas.

The new principals are:

Pam Sica. Sica will be principal at Abbott Elementary School. She comes to the district from the Flat Rock Public Schools, where she was a principal. She also has experience as a principal in the Monroe school district.
Amy McCusker. McCusker will take over at Lawton Elementary School. Last school year, she completed her fourth year as principal at Wildwood Elementary School in the Wayne-Westland school district. Prior to that, she was a reading recovery teacher and literacy coach in the Westwood and Livonia school districts.
David DeYoung. DeYoung will take over at Wines Elementary School. He comes from West Bloomfield, where he just completed his fifth year as the principal at Ealy Elementary School. DeYoung grew up in Ann Arbor and attended the Ann Arbor school district.
Michael Johnson. Johnson will be the principal at Lakewood Elementary School. He most recently was a fifth-grade teacher at Ann Arbor’s Thurston Elementary Scool, where he taught for five years. He also has been the administrator for the Mitchell summer school program for the past two years.