Nawa Academy
French Gulch, CA

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Dr. Wes Johnson
At Nawa Academy

Nawa Academy in French Gulch, CA is pleased to welcome Dr. Wes Johnston as the Assistant Head of School. Dr. Johnston joins us from Maine with 15 years of successful school leadership. His experience includes senior administration at a Maine boarding school for at-risk middle and high school students and more recently, Head of School for college preparatory schools in both California and Maine. Wes is a Bakersfield, California native. He and his wife Marilyn, from Halifax, Nova Scotia, reared their four children in Maine, the youngest of whom is a 2010 graduate of Cal State University Monterey Bay. A passion for the success of students underlies Dr. Johnston's leadership style and strategic development. He will be mentored by the founders of Nawa Academy in all facets of the organization and will assume operational leadership to allow the current Head of School, David Hull, to focus his energies on funding and program development.

About Nawa Academy:
Nawa Academy, is a co-ed, non-traditional, non-therapeutic boarding school that nurtures students in an environment that emphasizes teaching based on individual abilities and learning styles and provides students with learning differences such as dyslexia, ADHD and dysgraphia (the inability to write caused by cerebral lesion) with an environment where they can succeed.