Head of School

Head of School

Mr. Troy K. Weaver is a New Yorker, born in Jamaica, Queens, and growing up on Long Island in North Babylon, NY. He came to Durham, North Carolina to attend Duke University and become a pediatrician. Instead, after graduation he worked at Duke University Medical Center as a certified Poison Information Specialist by night and eventually became a substitute teacher with the former Durham City Schools by day. His experiences as a subsititute teacher caused him to be "bitten" by the teaching bug, and he then received a Lyndhurst Fellowhip at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to receive a Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) and North Carolina Teacher's Certification in a one-year, intensive program.

Weaver has been in education for more than 22 years and has had a number of exciting professional experiences. He began his career by serving as a public school biology and chemistry teacher at Hugh M. Cummings High School in Burlington, NC. Later, he moved closer to home by accepting a position in a non-traditional educational setting as an Educational Specialist, providing educational diagnosis and teaching all subjects to incarcerated youth (ages 10-16) at the Durham County Youth Home. His next professional venture was within the independent school ranks by becoming an inaugural faculty member at Cary Academy where he taught algebra and science in the middle school and later moved to the upper school where he taught biology and chemistry, and developed a course in forensic science. Weaver also began his first administrative position by becoming Dean of Students for grades 9 & 10. In 2002, he became the inaugural headmaster of Durham Nativity School a private, tuition-free, all-male middle school in Northeast-Central Durham, where he also taught science, religion and math. He most recently taught and served as an administrator at Triangle Day School, a K-8, coed school here in Durham. Mr. Weaver is absolutely thrilled to be able to serve as the inaugural Head of School for Union Independent School, a school that will undoubtedly change lives and impact the Northeast-Central Durham community!

He is married to Claudette E. Weaver and they are the proud parents of 6 wonderful sons.

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