Headings goes back to his beginnings
By Terry Murry on Friday, June 20th, 2025 in Columbia Basin News More Top Stories
LEBANON – Pendleton School Superintendent Kevin Headings is returning to his roots. He is the new principal at Riverview Elementary School in the Lebanon School District. Headings was on the first staff at Riverview, teaching fifth grade, when it opened in 2002. He also did his administrative internship there during the 2003-04 school year.
When Headings stepped down from the superintendent’s position in Pendleton he said it was because he missed the exposure to students that is lacking in the role of chief executive officer of a school district. His dream job is becoming a reality as he returns to the K-5 school.
“Both my wife and I grew up and lived in Lebanon until 2005,” Headings said. “That’s when we moved out here as I was hired as the Stanfield Elementary principal.”
After three years in the superintendent’s position, Headings began to yearn for being directly responsible for a school, not a district.
“The job itself is filled with meetings, e-mails, reports, community events, school events,” he said on the KUMA Coffee Hour. “You really don’t get that personal interaction.”
Headings said that for the first year or so, he will live in Lebanon with family and commute home to Echo when he can during weekends and breaks. He is a pilot and owns an airplane.
“(It) takes an hour to fly from Hermiston to Lebanon,” he said. “It takes 4.5 hours to drive.”
Kevin and Dawn Headings also own a home in Hermiston which they are using as a rental.
“We will then look to possibly sell one of our houses and get something in the Lebanon area,” he said.
