Brian Hull, an award-winning elementary school principal, will give a presentation on April 9

Brian Hull, an award-winning elementary school principal, will give a presentation Thursday, April 9, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Longwood University's Hull Auditorium on "Maintaining High Expectations for Student Achievement in a Changing Environment." The interactive presentation will include discussion of his school's creation of parent liaison groups to connect with the families of his multi-ethnic student body, whose students and families speak 47 languages in their respective home environments. Hull, principal of Colin L. Powell Elementary School in Centreville, was Fairfax County's 2007 Principal of the Year and has been named a Distinguished Educator by The Washington Post. He has worked in the Fairfax County Public Schools for almost 30 years, serving as a school principal since 1990, and has been his school's principal since it opened in 2003. The presentation is co-sponsored by the Cormier Honors College for Citizen Scholars, the Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences, and the College of Education and Human Services.