Leadership Team
Meet our Principal and Assistant Principal
![Heidi Haggerty Wagner]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1655575774/acpsk12vaus/virmo6qazzngohssjope/heidi_haggerty_web-4551.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1655575774/acpsk12vaus/virmo6qazzngohssjope/heidi_haggerty_web-4551.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1655575774/acpsk12vaus/virmo6qazzngohssjope/heidi_haggerty_web-4551.png","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1655575774/acpsk12vaus/virmo6qazzngohssjope/heidi_haggerty_web-4551.png","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1655575774/acpsk12vaus/virmo6qazzngohssjope/heidi_haggerty_web-4551.png","width":1500}])
Heidi Haggerty Wagner
Principal
Heidi Haggerty Wagner is the principal of Alexandria City Public Schools Early Childhood Center. She has worked in many diverse roles in education including 6 years as a principal of a PK-Grade 5 Title I elementary school in NE Washington, DC and 20 years in Arlington Virginia Public Schools in a variety of roles including special education, curriculum, and instruction, and special projects leadership. She created and led collaborative systems within central offices and schools to eliminate silos and promote the design and implementation of Tier I, II, and III English Language Arts instruction from K- 8th Grade. Ms. Haggerty Wagner is a nationally certified leader for SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) and embraces equity-focused school leadership that attempts to uncover the interconnected ways in which marginalization takes place, in order to help achieve racial equity within schools, the division, and our community.
Ms. Haggerty Wagner has earned a BA in Psychology and an M.ED in Special Education: Curriculum and Instruction and an M.ED in Educational Leadership. She has taught as an adjunct professor for George Mason University including creating a new course, "Teaching Reading to Struggling Readers." Currently, Ms. Haggerty Wagner is nearing completion of a Harvard University Certificate in Early Learning Leadership (December 2020).
Ms. Haggerty Wagner shares a multigenerational home with her father and teenage daughter, and their much loved dog, Blue. She's grateful for the joyful opportunity to lead the Early Childhood Center!
Phone: 703-578-6822
Email: heidi.haggerty.wagner@acps.k12.va.us
![Michael Praylor]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1756325992/acpsk12vaus/b0lfq41twvcreomex3po/praylor-WEB.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1756325992/acpsk12vaus/b0lfq41twvcreomex3po/praylor-WEB.jpg","width":420}])
Michael Praylor
Assistant Principal
Michael Praylor joined the Early Childhood Center as an assistant principal in July 2025. Prior to this role, he served in Guilford County Schools in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the span of several years as a teacher, Praylor taught kindergarten, second grade and fourth grade. Additionally, he served as a middle school assistant principal.
“Mr. Praylor brings a wealth of experience working with our youngest learners and we could not be more excited to work with him and to learn from him,” said Principal Heidi Haggerty Wagner.
Praylor also was an adjunct professor at Winston-Salem State University in the Department of Education, where he taught students the science of reading and helped them prepare for the Foundations of Reading Praxis. He actively participated in his community by partnering with a non-profit organization called Black Child Development, where he supported inner-city youth through various programs.
Praylor holds a Bachelor of Science in child development and family studies from North Carolina A & T State University and a Master of Arts in educational leadership from High Point University.