Breez Longwell Daniels

Breez Longwell Daniels

Breez Longwell Daniels is the principal of Hot Springs County High School in Thermopolis, Wyoming. She was named Wyoming Elementary/Middle Schools Principal of the Year and National Distinguished Principal in 2016-2017 and Wyoming Secondary Schools Principal of the Year in 2020.

In May of 2021 Hot Springs County High School was named a Model PLC at Work under Daniels’ leadership. While she served as Principal at Thermopolis Middle School, Daniels and her team celebrated being named a Model PLC in 2017, 2018, and 2019. The school was also a finalist for the distinguished DuFour Award in 2018 and 2019. Daniels was named a Rebecca Burnette DuFour scholarship recipient for the 2019 Women in Education: Leading Perspectives Institute.

Daniels published her first article in the AllThingsPLC Magazine in fall 2018, called “Growing a PLC from Rural Roots.” In July 2020 Daniels’s book, PLC at Work and Your Small School: Building, Deepening and Sustaining a Culture of Collaboration for Singletons was published by Solution Tree.

Daniels has a bachelor’s degree in elementary education with a middle school endorsement from the University of Wyoming, a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from Lesley University, and a K-12 principal leadership endorsement from the University of Wyoming.

Daniels believes the Professional Learning Community model transforms student learning in small schools through vertical collaborative teams, the triangulation of data and building wide roundtables for learning together. Daniels is an advocate for preparing small and rural school students for the academic rigor of college, career-technical and military readiness, and she believes teachers in small schools are the crucial factor in student success.

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Presentations by Breez Longwell Daniels

• Three Big Ideas of a PLC in your Small School
• Going Vertical: Creating Agenda-Driven, Mutually Accountable, Vertical Content Teams with Singletons
• Your Data, Your Small School: Getting SMART about Goals with Singletons
• Transforming Small-School Culture to Achieve Higher Levels of Learning