Tony Donen

Tony Donen has worked for the past nine years outside Nashville, Tennessee as principal of Fairview High School. Originally born in South Africa, Tony grew up in Canada and then the United States, where he graduated from high school in New Jersey. Tony received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Virginia Tech University and a master's degree in teaching from East Tennessee State University. He is currently working on his doctorate degree in educational leadership from Trevecca Nazarene University.

Tony has worked as a teacher, coach, and administrator for the past 16 years in education. In his current position as principal of Fairview High School, he has helped lead the school to recognition on Newsweek's list of top public high schools, three consecutive years of over a 96% graduation rate, and an ACT standards-based implementation in 2010-2011 that resulted in a two point school wide gain on PLAN and ACT assessments. Tony is also the lead author for the book Grades Don't Matter: Using Assessment to Measure True Learning as well as co-author for The Grades Game, an article published in February, 2011 Principal Leadership magazine.