Megan D. Cover

Megan D. Cover became the 10th Head of School at Girls Preparatory School in July 2021. A lifelong educator and advocate for all-girls education, Megan has ushered GPS into a new era focused on student-centered programming and fostering a learner-centered culture. Her leadership prioritizes the holistic development of girls—mind, body, and spirit—and guides her initiatives and decisions.

Under her leadership, GPS launched a strategic design process, Empowering Girls for a Changing World, aligned with campus master planning to enhance programs and facilities that best serve girls. Megan expanded student success services, establishing a new Center for Teaching and Learning and Health and Wellness Center. She realigned faculty roles to best support community and belonging, adding new deans of teaching and learning, student life, health and wellness, and girls leadership and outdoor education; a school nurse; and Director of Athletics and Strategic Partnerships and Director of Security.

Megan also refocused the efforts of College Counseling to prioritize and support each girl’s academic and career aspirations, empowering faculty and staff to scaffold a learner-centered program with an emphasis on academic excellence. In partnership with Development and Admission, Megan has built relationships with alumnae and current and prospective parents to achieve and exceed fundraising goals and intentionally attract and enroll mission-aligned students and families.

Before GPS, Megan spent over 20 years at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware, serving in various roles, including Head of Upper School. As an alumna of the girls’ school Agnes Irwin, Megan experienced for herself the transformative power of an all-girls education. She serves on The Heads Network and TAIS Board of Directors and is a member of the Heads Collegiate Forum and the 1911 Group. She completed a fellowship for independent and international school heads at the Klingenstein Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College in 2024.

Megan is an active presenter, sharing her insights at conferences such as TAIS, ICGS, and SAIS, on topics ranging from headship to reimagining campus spaces and restoring civil discourse. She served as a faculty fellow at the Head’s Network Women’s Leadership Seminar in 2024.

Megan and her husband, Ted, have three daughters: two are student-athletes at Washington & Lee University and GPS alumnae, and one is a recent graduate of Washington & Lee.