The Greenwood School Board approved personnel changes Tuesday that included shifts in a number of administrative positions.
The following changes were approved:
- Lorita Harris, principal at Greenwood Middle School, has been promoted to director of federal programs for the district.
- Chiqueta Daniels, who has been assistant principal at Greenwood High, will replace Harris at the middle school.
- Likisha Coleman, assistant principal at Davis Elementary, has been promoted to principal there.
- Dawn Stamps, assistant principal at Threadgill Elementary, was named assistant principal at Davis.
- Cassandra Hart, principal at Threadgill Elementary, will be an assistant principal at Greenwood High.
- Lachada Robie, who comes from the Leflore County School District, will replace Hart at Threadgill.
- Charles Johnson, formerly a teacher at Greenwood High School, will be assistant principal at Threadgill.
Also at Tuesday’s meeting, Dr. Jennifer Wilson, the district’s curriculum director, reported on the progress of the work being done in the extended school program.
Elementary students are receiving remediation in reading, language arts and math as well as technology-based instruction, she said. The latter is done two or three times a week for those from kindergarten through third grade and at least once a week for those in grades four through six.
Students at Greenwood Middle School receive remedial instruction in reading, math, language arts, science and social studies.
There is a new option this year for some Greenwood High School students, she said.
“We are implementing what is called a credit recovery program at the high school, whereby students who have not received a 65 in order to pass the course can go through Extended Services and recover that particular credit,” she said.
Also, in July, a “jump start” program will be offered at the elementary schools to give them a sense of what they will be taught beginning in August.
In other business Tuesday:
- It was announced that there will be a public hearing at 5 p.m. Friday regarding the 2010-2011 district budget. The budget will be adopted at a meeting at 5 p.m. June 29.
- Superintendent Dr. Margie Pulley said all 64 spots in the pre-kindergarten program have been filled, but students may still get on the waiting list.
- Pulley and Becky McCabe, the district’s director of food services, reported on the participation in the summer feeding program, which includes breakfast for the first time this year. Of the new breakfast option, McCabe said, “As far as feeding our school students, it’s been successful. We haven’t had much participation from the community, but hopefully the word will get around.”
