‘She was just a dynamo’: Longtime friend remembers Covenant School leader for mentorship and student empowerment [wpln.org]

Jane Stevens 3/30/232:38 PM

By Anna Gallegos-Cannon, WPLN News, March 28, 2023

Dr. Katherine Koonce was one of the six people killed Monday at Covenant School, but the head of the private Christian school will be remembered for the positive impact she had on her students and friends.

“She was just a dynamo, and she honored humanity so much. She had such a deep, abiding respect for the sacredness of life,” Anna Caudill told This Is Nashville on Tuesday.

Caudill met Koonce when as a high school teacher at Christ Presbyterian Academy beginning in 2000. Koonce was the academic dean at CPA before she left to lead Covenant School in 2016.

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