Liz Garden
Principal, Henry P. Clough Elementary School, Mendon, Massachusetts
Liz Garden is the principal of the Henry P. Clough Elementary School in Mendon, MA. Liz has a Master’s in Child Development with a focus on Early Childhood Literacy from Wheelock College. She received her Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study from Fitchburg College in Educational Leadership and Management. She has been an administrator for fifteen years and taught at various levels for eleven years. Liz has presented about her love of reading and writing at the MA Reading Association Conference, Literacy for All Conference, and the NAESP Conference. She served on the Scholastic Principal Advisory Board and the NAESP National Coronavirus Task Force. She served on the Mass Literacy Support Network and assisted with the development of DESE's Mass Literacy site. When she is not molding future minds as an instructional leader, she is dealing with her reading addiction, keeping Amazon in business, listening to her musician husband sing, and chasing around her wild kids, Emerson and Cayce!
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