Michelle A. Walthour is the principal for Ashburn Elementary School. Mrs. Walthour holds a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education with a concentration in Spanish from the State University of New York at Oswego and a master’s degree in elementary education from New York University. She has done additional course work at the University of Virginia. She has served as an assistant Principal at Sully Elementary School; as a fifth grade teacher at Ball’s Bluff Elementary; as a fourth and fifth grade teacher at Hampton Oaks Elementary in Stafford County; as a fifth grade teacher at Paul H. Cale Elementary in Charlottesville; as a first, third and sixth grade teacher at James K. Polk Elementary in Alexandria; and as a second, third, fifth and sixth grade teacher at Public School 251 in Brooklyn, N.Y.