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Moses to leave Scotts Creek to be SMHS assistant principal
By Stephanie Salmons
Smoky Mountain High School’s new administrator will be Kathryn Moses, who will replace former assistant principal Raylene Bryson.
Bryson was appointed principal of the new Jackson County Early College, and Moses will move from her current assistant principal position at Scotts Creek Elementary to replace her.
The decision came after a closed session to discuss personnel during the Monday, April 28, meeting of the Jackson County school board.
According to school system finance officer Gwen Edwards, Moses’ monthly salary of $4,468 plus $126 a month for an advanced degree will not change, but Moses will be moving from an 11-month to a 12-month position. Her annual salary will be $55,128.
The state funds assistant principals for 10 months, Edwards said, adding that the local school district pays an additional month for elementary assistant principals and two months for those at the high school level.
“I am looking forward to working with everyone at SMHS,” Moses said. “I am excited about working with high school students.”
Moses, who began her tenure as assistant principal at Scotts Creek in July 2003, was a business education teacher at Fairview from 1999 until 2003 and was employed as public health coordinator in Jackson and Clay counties from 1994 until 1999.
Another assistant principal change is on the way as well: the retirement of Loretta Easton, assistant principal at Smokey Mountain Elementary, was accepted during Monday’s meeting.
Also April 28:
– Superintendent Sue Nations recognized Fairview School nurse Rachel Wittekind, who recently passed the National School Nurse Certification exam.
– Board members voted unanimously 4-0 (board member Ali Laird-Large was absent), to approve a calendar waiver for the Jackson County Early College and Blue Ridge School, which will also house an early college program, that will allow students at these schools to start on Aug. 8. Without a waiver, state law require schools to start no earlier than Aug. 25.
Nations said the school district had applied for a districtwide waiver, but it was not approved.
According to JCEC Principal Bryson, the waiver will allow JCEC and Blue Ridge School to be better aligned with Southwestern Community College’s schedule because SCC is such a close partner with the early college program.
The waiver would also apply to all the students of Blue Ridge, not just those in the Blue Ridge Early College program, to facilitate scheduling.
Nations said the school system would continue to apply for a districtwide waiver that would allow all students to begin the school year earlier and mean that students at all county high schools could complete exams before the Christmas break.
– Board members unanimously approved budget amendments for funds coming from the state public school funds, federal grant fund, local current expense fund and the school district’s capital outlay fund.
According to Edwards, those amendments were necessary due to changes in funding. In some cases there have been additional allotments and, although the district has those funds, it cannot spend the money unless it’s added to the budget.
– Board members approved the following field trips:
Eighth- to 12th-grade New Century Scholars from all schools to SOAR in Balsam from Thursday, May 8, to Friday, May 9.
Cullowhee Valley’s SOS After School program to Pigeon Forge, Tenn., on Monday, June 9.
Fairview fifth-graders to the Knoxville Zoo on Friday, May 2; the school’s sixth-graders will visit the zoo on Friday, May 9.
SMHS men’s soccer to camp in Greensboro July 25 through 28; Boys basketball team to camp at Wake Forest June 20 through 21 and to camp at the UNC-Charlotte from June 14 through 25.
The Hubs’s Spectrum group, grades one through three, to Ripley’s in Gatlinburg, Tenn., on Friday, May 9.
– In personnel matters, school board members approved the following:
Retirements of Marcia Johnson, exceptional children’s program teacher at CVS; Paul Strop, migrant English as a Second Language countywide coordinator; and James Woodard, custodian at CVS.
Resignations from CVS physical education teacher assistant Shaketia Barnes, SMES teacher Sheree Case, CVS math tutor Joyce Gibson, SMHS teacher Rita Hubbs, CVS special education teacher Stephanie Mathis, Hub teaching assistant Joseph McIntosh, Scotts Creek special education teacher Karen Newsom and Hub teacher Kia Rizzo.
Employment of Holly Boyle, after-school day camp at Fairview; Stephanie Braswell, Catherine Cagle and Blake Proffitt as after-school and summer camp counselors at CVS; Darius Bryson, temporary physical education assistant at CVS; Myranda Bryson, virtual high school facilitator at SMHS; Jamie Ferry, math teacher, Mary Given, tutor and Lori Huckabee, tutor, all at the Hub; and Lavonda Woodring, exceptional children’s program compliance specialist and data manager.
Substitute teachers approved include Benjamin Bagwell, Holly Boyle, Stephanie Bryson, Hailey Coomer, Kandace Green, Jada Hansen, Robert McLaughlin, Patricia Mathis, Charles Miller, Brian Snyder, Holli Starr, Megan Wimpey and Hailey Woods.
Thomas Elkovich was approved as a bus driver for SMES.
Non-staff coaches approved include Cassie Stewart, assistant softball coach at Blue Ridge.
A request for a leave of absence for the 2008-09 school year by Adam Holt was also approved.
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