Maxey is the new principal of Alexandria’s T.C. Williams High School, which federal education officials earlier this year singled out as one of Northern Virginia’s lowest-performing high schools. Before joining T.C. Williams, Maxey was a principal at Seneca Valley High in Montgomery County, and at Bowie High in Prince George’s County.

What do you hope to accomplish at T.C. Williams?
We’re really trying to peel back the onion of the school layer by layer to try to make everything excellent. There’s a new definition of what it means to be excellent in schools today. It’s not good enough to be excellent in some things — you have to be excellent in everything and with all students.

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