Mel Riddile is the Associate Director for High School Services at the National Association of Secondary School Principals. His previous experience includes Principal status at T.C. Williams High School, J.E.B. Stuart High School, as well as having been a School Administrator since 1974. Dr. Riddile’s areas of expertise consist of restructuring and reinventing high schools, adolescent literacy, ninth grade transition, school-based central office experience and consulting. While at J.E.B. Stuart High School, he was named the 2006 National High School Principal of the Year by the National Association of Secondary School Principals and MetLife. At T.C. Williams he was involved with the opening of a new, state-of-the-art facility, implementation of a new secondary literacy initiative, restructuring of programs for second-language learners and wide-spread integration of instructional technology. Dr. Riddile received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, his M.A. from George Mason University and Ed.D. from George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University.