When Bill Westphal, principal of Canby High School, graduated from the University of Colorado with a history degree some 35 years ago, he didn’t really consider a career in school administration.
Instead, he first entertained the idea of law school, then tried out the corporate world, working for a bank in southern California for two years.
Even after he became a high school teacher in 1970, the prospect of becoming a principal wasn’t on Westphal’s…