Beulah shoesmith biography
Beulah shoesmith biography
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Kai Murray, the new principal of Shoesmith Elementary School, is spending her first year working to reenergize the Kenwood school’s community after three years of Covid-19.
A former teacher, instructional coach and administrator, Murray stepped into the head role of the kindergarten through sixth grade school, 1330 E.
50th St., in November.
Murray grew up in South Shore and attended Kenwood Academy through a Chicago Public Schools’ (CPS) program that allows enrollment in a non-neighborhood school. She said that Hyde Park has long been her “second home.”
“A lot of the friends that I made at Kenwood lived nearby, and we would spend a lot of time on 53rd Street, visiting the restaurants, or going to the park, going to the movie theater,” she said.
She had two younger siblings that attended Murray Language Academy, 5335 S. Kenwood Ave., and she often walked them from school to the Hyde Park Racquetball Club.
Another Hyde Park connection and her inspiration to pursue education was