{"id":9,"date":"2023-05-08T15:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T15:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusd.dev.apppresser.com\/mattos\/about-our-principal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:10:05","slug":"about-our-principal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/mattos\/about\/welcome\/about-our-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"About Our Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/mattos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/10\/pictures-23-24-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sherea Westra is honored to continue serving the students and community of Fremont as principal of Mattos Elementary School. Through strong relationships with the Mattos community, she has helped revitalize and strengthen the Mattos Science Magnet Program.<\/p>\n<p>For over 20 years, Mrs. Westra has dedicated herself to building positive relationships with FUSD staff, students, and families to ensure every child has a safe and nurturing environment to learn. Her student-centered and collaborative approach creates meaningful opportunities for all to grow and succeed.<\/p>\n<p>During her teaching career at Niles Elementary School, she taught grades 1-5.\u00a0 She recently has served as principal for various FUSD summer programs for the past five years. Beyond the classroom, Mrs. Westra has been an active leader, serving on numerous FUSD and site committees, including the Curriculum and Instruction Committee, Long Range Facility Planning Committee, C&amp;I Liaison, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Team, Coordinator of Services Team Coordinator, and as advisor to the Niles Student Council.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her commitment extends into the broader community through years of volunteer service with Niles PTA, Centerville PTA, Washington High School PTA, Fremont Council PTA, and the Fremont Education Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Westra graduated from American High School in Fremont and attended Humboldt State University. After graduating with her Bachelor of Arts and Multiple Subjects Credential, she returned back to Fremont where she has stayed ever since. She and her husband currently\u00a0reside in Niles.\u00a0 Her daughter attends Long Beach State University and her son attends Centerville\u00a0Middle School.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherea Westra is honored to continue serving the students and community of Fremont as principal of Mattos Elementary School. Through strong relationships with the Mattos community, she has helped revitalize and strengthen the Mattos Science Magnet Program. For over 20 years, Mrs. Westra has dedicated herself to building positive relationships with FUSD staff, students, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191052,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_left_column_singular.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/link-title":"","advanced-sidebar-menu\/exclude-page":false},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 13:54:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/mattos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/mattos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/mattos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/mattos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/mattos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/mattos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/mattos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/mattos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fremontunified.org\/mattos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}