Deborah Grinnage-Pulley retired as the Executive Director of the Juvenile Services Education System (JSES) from the Maryland State Department of Education. The JSES provided educational services to youth detained and committed to the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services (DJS). We administered education services in thirteen DJS facilities statewide.
Previously, Deborah served as the Education Program Specialist at the Maryland State Department of Education. She also held several leadership roles in Calvert County Public Schools, including Executive Director of School Operations, where she oversaw all district principals and Director of Secondary Curriculum and Instruction, where she supervised all middle and high schools in the district. In these roles, she collaborated with other administrators and facilitated staff in the design, implementation, and measurement of curriculum and instruction plans. She also observed instruction at individual schools and conferred with principals on strategies to improve student learning.
When she became principal of Calvert Middle School in Prince Frederick in 1997, Grinnage-Pulley created an environment in which standardized test scores steadily increased, and she played a key role in narrowing the achievement gap between minority and non-minority students. In recognition of her leadership, she received a Governor's Citation for instructional leadership from the Maryland State Department of Education in 2001 and the Washington Post Distinguished Educational
Leadership Award the same year.
Deborah spent 18 years as a physical education and biology teacher and four years as a vice principal at Northern High School before she was appointed a principal at Calvert Middle School.
1975 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, B.S. and Bowie State University Master's degreeCertification Areas Health and Physical Education k - 12 and Secondary Principal - Supervisor
