At least three public schools in East Cobb will be getting new principals for the coming 2021-22 school year, and the Cobb County School District has compiled the following profiles.
Their appointments were recently approved by the Cobb Board of Education.
Kendra Brooks will be the new principal at Murdock Elementary School, succeeding Lynn Hamblett, who is retiring.
Brooks has been an assistant principal at Sope Creek Elementary School and has been in Cobb schools for her entire 20-year educational career. In this Q and A, she describes her personal philosophy, what she calls “For Children – Through Teachers.”
Dr. Hannah Polk will be succeeding retiring principal Laura Montgomery at Hightower Trail Middle School. Like Brooks, Polk is moving from another East Cobb school, having served as an assistant principal at Simpson Middle School.
At Addison Elementary School, Susan Hallmark also has resigned, and her successor is Jill Spiva, an assistant principal at Davis Elementary School.
As a mother raising her school children in East Cobb, she discusses how she’s “thrilled to both parent and lead in this community!”
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