I have been a principal for 4 years and I am moving to another school on Monday. In 7 months I will be married and change my name and students will call me by another name, should I start by asking students to call me by my married name or my single name?  It just seems weird to introduce myself as Ms. X and then in 7 months when they leave and come back from vacation come back and call me Mrs.Y... the students will wonder, what happened to Ms. X?

It is a pain- Im dealing with it as a substitute- and it confuses everyone! lol Who was she again? They all call me a different name now.

In your case though- since your the Principal- it will be much easier.  I would just do your maiden first and then change it next year... 

Follow your gut though. . .

~ HMM :)

If I change my name- still haven't decided- I will just switch it over the summer after I get married.  I'm certainly not going to snap at a student who calls me Miss S.- and honestly there is going to be a lot of correcting no matter WHEN you do it.  If you have a hands-on principal style, your students will know what you look like and ask you what happened to your name, and that will filter back to their parents. :)

hehe my name doesnt change! :-D

I got married over the summer, but had several students again the following year. It was a bit of an adjustment for them at first, and even now I still get called by my old name here and there, but it really wasn't a huge deal. I just correct kids when they do it and they usually laugh.

ah man! I can relate. I decided it would be a super fun idea to keep my last name and just add my husbands. Now none of my students can remember my name! High schoolers just call me my first name, but middle school and younger I have call me Mrs. G. Most of them want to know what my full name is and when I tell them they give me this look of uneasiness...like, "are you crazy?!" haha