David Eagle attended St. Mary’s in Hudson Falls through 8th grade and graduated from Hudson Falls High School in 1969. He has fond memories of playing on championship basketball and track teams for Tony Luciano and singing in Joyce Irwin’s Choraliers. Many special teachers at Hudson Falls inspired him to become an educator. Dave attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts on an academic scholarship and spent his junior year in Bangor, Wales. After graduating with his BA in Sociology in 1973, he became a social studies teacher and coach in Liverpool, NY.
He married his college sweetheart Leslie Rosebrook from South Glens Falls in 1976 and traveled to Oregon so he could pursue his Masters in Counseling at Western Oregon State College. They lived on Mt. Hood for six years while Dave worked as a middle school counselor and returned to the Adirondacks where he worked as the Director of Guidance at Lake George Jr/Sr. High School for 15 years.
He completed a CAS in Counseling degree in 1987 from SUNY Plattsburgh. For years he taught parenting classes to hundreds of parents in the Glens Falls region. From 1991 to 1996 Dave served as a member of the Glens Falls School District Board of Education.
In 1996 Dave became Principal of Lake George Jr/Sr. High School. Under his leadership, Lake George was accredited with commendations from the Middle States Accreditation team. Dave did staff training in brain-based teaching strategies and differentiated instruction not just for his staff but many local school districts as well. After completing an advanced educational administrative CAGS degree from Castleton College in 2001, Dave taught graduate courses in brain-based teaching strategies through SUNY Plattsburgh and Castleton College as an adjunct professor until 2007.
In 2007 Dave retired as principal of Lake George and moved to Washington, D.C. Here he worked in the central office of Prince George’s County Public Schools until 2013. He was a Turn-Around Specialist for two schools identified by the state as needing alternative governance and was instrumental in the significant improvement in student attendance and achievement that prevented the schools from being taken over by the state.
In 2010 Dave was asked to take the position as the Coordinating Supervisor for the Prince George’s district’s newly formed College and Career Ready Office. He sat on the Superintendent’s Executive Council that developed magnet career academies in each of the 26 high schools that served the 40,000 high school students. In 2013 he retired from Prince George’s. In 2016 Dave was honored as Educator of the Year by the Lake George Alumni Association.
David and Leslie reside in Lake George. They have a son, Brook, living in Santa Cruz, California and a daughter Jessica who lives in Glens Falls. They have one granddaughter and are expecting a second grandchild soon!