Head of School - Ann Pollina
Ann Pollina has been Head of Westover School, an all-girls independent, preparatory school in Middlebury, CT since 1997, and has been a member of the School’s faculty since joining its Mathematics Department in 1972. She continues to teach a class in AP Calculus at the School.
Mrs. Pollina has written extensively and frequently travels throughout the country to speak on education, school excellence, and gender equity in education. As a national speaker, consultant, and organizer of symposia on gender equity in education, Mrs. Pollina is recognized as an expert on ways to involve girls in math, science and technology, and serves on the boards of directors for a number of regional and national groups that promote women’s education.
Mrs. Pollina was named President of the National Coalition of Girls' Schools in 2009, after serving as its Vice President since 2006. She is on the Strategic Planning Committee and Board of Directors of The Maranyundo School in Nyamata, Rwanda, a middle school for girls with a focus on math and science that opened in January 2008. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Headmistresses Association of the East and is President of the Board of the National Coalition of Girls Schools. She is a member and Co-Chair of the Connecticut Girls and Technology Network and from 1994 to 1998 was the principal investigator of the statewide National Science Foundation grant of United Connecticut for Women in Science. Mrs. Pollina is currently the President of the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools and was on the Board of the Connecticut Academy for Education in Mathematics, Science & Technology.
In 1992 Mrs. Pollina helped found the Westover/Rensselaer WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Program, a collaboration between Westover and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which aims to encourage young women to pursue careers in math and science. She was named 2002 Woman of the Year by the Connecticut chapter of the American Association of University Women.
