Our School

Dear Families of Honey Island Students, 

Welcome to our new school year, 2025-2026, "A Year Where Leadership and Learning are Magical!" I am Gina Troyer, your principal! I have been serving the students and community of St. Tammany now for 36 years and loving every minute of it! My Assistant Principal and partner is Rachel Moreno, who has also served our Honey Island students for many years first as a teacher and now as an administrator! We make a great team! We are looking forward to a great partnership with you to ensure our students can reach their highest potential. We recognize that our students need support both from home and school to soar, and this partnership will make a great difference in our students' education!

Some areas where you can help as a family include the following:

• Ensure that your child gets enough rest, heathy eating and play time.
• Help your child to be responsible for materials and homework assignments.
• Have your child read daily to develop a love for reading!
• Encourage your child to communicate what they are learning every day!
• Promote Leader in Me - the "7 Habits of Highly Effective People," or as we say at Honey Island, the 7 Habits of the Hive:

         -Be Proactive

         -Begin with the End in Mind

         -Put First Things First

         -Think Win-Win

         -Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

         -Synergize

         -Sharpen the Saw

We also have an 8th Habit, Find Your Voice, and while our students are here, we will help them to find their voice through many different leadership activities and learning across the curriculum! We look forward to this new, magical school year - getting to know our students and families as well! I'd love feedback from you about what is important for your child while they are a Honey Island Honeybee.  I'd like to stay in close communication with my parent community, and I will be sending out quarterly newsletters this year. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me for questions, concerns, and ideas!

Gina Troyer

Honey Island Principal