Brendan Lyons Brings Web Know-How to Hell’s Kitchen High School

Brendan Lyons, a principal of a High School of Graphic Communication Arts (DNAinfo/Mathew Katz)

Each week, DNAinfo.com talks to a principal from one of Manhattan’s schools. This week, it’s Brendan Lyons, 37, of a High School of Graphic Communication Arts. Budding photographers and artists from all 5 boroughs come to HSGCA, during 439 W. 49th St., to learn practical, career-focused skills while removing their high propagandize diploma, yet a propagandize has had some educational challenges, and was put on a list of “struggling” schools by a Department of Education in November.

Lyons came to a propagandize in Sep from a pursuit coordinating web-based preparation programs during a Department of Education’s executive office, and given afterwards has helped exercise several high-tech initiatives during a school, that he’s anticipating will lift adult a school’s ranking.

Q: Where are we from, originally?

I was innate in New York City, and my relatives altered to New Jersey. we went to propagandize out there. Then after that we went to Rutgers, we graduated from Rutgers, altered to NYC, went to NYU — The Institute for Fine Arts — and afterwards became a teacher. During that time we went behind and got my executive grade to be an [assistant principal].

Q: How did we confirm we wanted to be a principal during HSGCA?

I was an [assistant principal] for 4 years in a South Bronx, and it was a unequivocally severe pursuit in a tiny school. we fundamentally schooled a tiny bit of all of a things we need to do to lead a school, given that’s what happens in a tiny school. At that point, we afterwards took a pursuit during a DOE executive office, using online training for a commander program. we unequivocally like a program, though did not like being divided from a students — it was some-more of an bureau job. Also, interacting with 125 smart, considerable principals, we satisfied that we was prepared to do a same thing that they were doing. Plus we favourite it a lot improved than operative in an office.

Q: Did we have a favorite theme in school?

I unequivocally favourite history; amicable studies, mostly, was my favorite. we was not a unequivocally clever math person. I’m re-learning math now along with my 7-year-old son, so it’s unequivocally engaging to start uninformed and this time I’m unequivocally going to get by it with him.

Q: Did we have a nickname in school?

I didn’t flourishing up, though given we graduated from high propagandize adult until now, I’ve been unequivocally concerned in study an Afro-Brazilian martial art called capoeira. You get a nickname in that, and so my nickname is Grilo.

Q: Is there any clergyman or director from your childhood that we remember carrying an change on you?

My third-grade teacher, Ms. Neenis, who median by a year altered her name to Ms. Cassidy given she got married and that threw us all for a loop. She was one of those teachers that got things finished by being nice

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