Monroe County schools Superintendent Theresa Axford recently announced that Tiffany Zepeda will serve as an assistant principal at Key Largo School for the 2023-2024 school year. Zepeda, who has taught at KLS since 2009, will take the place vacated by Debra Ward’s move to Coral Shores High School.
“Tiffany Zepeda’s successful experience in leadership roles at Key Largo School strongly suggests that she will make an outstanding assistant principal,” Axford said. “I am delighted that principal Darren Pais selected her to join the administrative team.”
“I look forward to supporting our students, teachers and families on a larger scale,” Zepeda said. “I have an abundance of pride in the home of the Tornados, and I am excited to share that in everything we do as we strive for continuous growth and success.”
Zepeda is a Key Largo native who attended Key Largo School as a child. She graduated from the University of Central Florida with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and followed with a master’s degree in education from the University of Florida. She earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from American College of Education in 2022.
In 2009, she rejoined the Key Largo School family as an educator to teach in both the elementary and middle school. In 2015, she became the middle school AVID site coordinator. In that capacity, she helped to support the school achieve the AVID National Demonstration School status and has since become an AVID staff developer.
Zepeda has supported and facilitated professional development both at Key Largo School and throughout the school district. She was named District Inclusion Teacher of the Year in 2014, KLS Teacher of the Year in 2018, and was named “Best Educator in the Upper Keys” by Upper Keys Weekly in 2022. She has also been the head volleyball coach at KLS for 12 years.
In the community, she is the chairperson for the Teen Intervention Prevention Services nonprofit organization, which provides scholarship and financial support for athletics and summer camp opportunities for children in the Upper Keys. She has also enjoyed her involvement as a leader for her daughter’s girl scout troop since 2020.
