By Leah Sander
InkFreeNews

AKRON — Tippecanoe Valley Middle School has a new principal.

At a special meeting on Thursday, June 27, the Tippecanoe Valley School Board unanimously hired Kyle Wieland as TVMS principal.

Kyle Wieland

Wieland last worked with Manchester Community Schools as director of communications and public relations, being MCS superintendent prior to that. He also previously worked in administration at Wabash City Schools.

TVSC Superintendent Blaine Conley noted Wieland was picked from among “15 applicants.”

“We interviewed four of those and Mr. Wieland rose to the top,” said Conley. “Our committee was very impressed with Kyle and his experience and we look forward to him leading the middle school and continuing what Scott Backus did at the middle school.”

Backus resigned as principal to become a teacher at Tippecanoe Valley High School.

Wieland shared with the board that he graduated from Manchester High School in 1994 before studying at Indiana University.

“It’s nice to just have an opportunity to kind of build off of what that school’s been doing,” said Wieland of TVMS.

He lives west of North Manchester with his wife Julia. They have two kids: Austin, an elementary school teacher in South Carolina, and London, a Manchester High School senior.