"As an alumna of Stoneleigh-Burnham School, I feel great pride and great responsibility to live up to what I know our school deserves in its leadership. As Head of School, I will be responsible for inspiring the Stoneleigh-Burnham Community and working on behalf of students' healthy growth and development - intellectual, personal, physical, social and spiritual. Achieving this requires clarity of purpose, consistency of expectation and consequence, and a great team of administrators, faculty and staff working together with the School and its students. I am lucky to be able to begin from such a strong foundation."
- Excerpted from Sally L. Mixsell's letter to the community upon her appointment as Head of School.
Ms. Mixsell brings an intimate knowledge of the Stoneleigh-Burnham community to the position of Head of School. She is an alumna of the Stoneleigh-Burnham School class of 1969, the first graduating class of the merged Stoneleigh-Burnham School. She has served on the School’s Board of Trustees from 1987 to 1991 and from 2001 to the present.
Ms. Mixsell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative French and American Literature from Wells College and a Master’s Degree in Education Administration with a focus in private school leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University, where she was also a Klingenstein Fellow. Her academic career has included teaching French, English, ESL and leadership in day and boarding schools in Connecticut and Pennsylvania and working in administration as a grade dean (grade 9), academic dean (grades 7-12) and director of curriculum and instruction (grades Pre-K-12). Ms. Mixsell also served as project director, which included overseeing and instructing in the Leadership Academy master’s degree program, at the Klingenstein Center for Independent School Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. From 2005-2008 she was an independent school consultant with the firm eduINNOVATIONS, of which she was a founding partner.
Ms. Mixsell lives on campus with her husband Hank Mixsell.