An MCHS student walks in the halls. As they near the new wing on the third floor, they head into Sean Sterner’s old office as a force of habit. When they enter the dark room, they remember he has moved campuses, and the student walks to their class disappointed.

Beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, Sterner will be changing his commute to the Freshman Campus for a new job position. Sterner is set to be the new FC Assistant Principal.

“I pursued this next step of my own leadership journey, and this is kind of just the next step,” Sterner says. “I enjoy leadership challenges, and this will be the next challenge for me.”

The FC is excited for the new face they will get to see around the building come fall.

“Mr. Sterner will bring a lot of valuable experience to the FC. He has been a division leader for several years,” FC Principal Gregory Eiserman says. “He has also gained a lot of great experience as Summer School Principal.”

With this new job, Sterner will be handling discipline acts, call operations, running the building and other logistical items. He is excited to help out FC students and staff.

“One of the reasons I wanted to pursue this in the first place is because I really love the direction that Mr. Eiserman is taking the Freshman Campus,” Sterner says.

While Sterner is excited for this new job, it was hard for him to part ways with the job he’s known and loved for the past several years.

“The hard part of this decision is I really like the job I currently have. I love the social studies division,” Sterner says. “I love the teachers that I get to work with on a daily basis,”

However, he is not the only person at MCHS that is sad to see him go. Staff and students will have to find a way to adapt to this new change.

“For the social studies department it’s sad because he’s awesome, he’s been in charge longer than I’ve been here,” social studies teacher Cody Freund says. “We’re gonna miss him as our boss, but we’re super excited for his new job.”

Senior Kilynn Axelson says that she is very excited for Sterner’s new job, but she knows that the underclassmen will miss getting to see him and grow their connections with him.

While it is bittersweet for Sterner to leave his current position, he is ready to get out there and experience what else working in education has to offer.

“The reason I wanted to get into education in the first place is to help students,” Sterner says, “and I think I’ll be able to do that a lot more as assistant principal but just in a different way outside the classroom walls.”

MCHS is waiting to see how this social science teacher is going to impact the school and everyone within.