Three more elementary schools in East Cobb will have new principals for the 2022-23 school year.
The Cobb Board of Education on Thursday approved the appointment of new principals for Eastvalley, Powers Ferry and Rocky Mount schools, among numerous personnel changes.
The new Eastvalley principal will be Dr. Whitney Spooner, who has been an assistant principal at Sope Creek Elementary School. She is replacing Kendall Foster, who has been named principal at Norton Park Elementary School.
Lindley Middle School principal Elayna Wilson has been named the new principal at Powers Ferry Elementary School, succeeding Patrice Jones.
Rocky Mount Elementary School principal Peggy Fleming is retiring, and the district has named Dr. Cheri Vaniman, an assistant principal at Nicholson Elementary School, to succeed her.
All three of those appointments will take effect July 1, when the Cobb County School District’s academic and fiscal year begins.
The retirement of longtime Brumby Elementary School Dr. Amanda Richie was made in April, but her successor has not been appointed.
The Cobb school board also made other personnel announcements, including the following at schools in East Cobb:
- Stephen Joel Atchison, assistant principal, Murdock Elementary School, resignation;
- Bradley Cohen, assistant principal at Bells Ferry Elementary School, reassigned to assistant principal, Addison Elementary School;
- Jamie Davies, assistant principal, Mt. Bethel Elementary School, resignation;
- Ashley Ford, assistant principal at Smyrna Elementary School, reassigned to assistant principal, Mt. Bethel Elementary School;
- Courtney Kelly, assistant principal, Big Shanty Elementary School, reassigned to assistant principal, Nicholson Elementary School;
- Elizabeth Marsili, assistant principal, Bells Ferry Elementary School, reassigned to assistant principal, Kennesaw Elementary School;
- Tresa Snow, Coordinator, South Cobb Early Learning Center, reassigned to assistant principal, Sope Creek Elementary School;
- Carrie Lowery, Technology Training Integration Specialist, Chief Technology Division, appointed to assistant principal, Dodgen Middle School;
- Dr. Kacie Phipps, assistant principal, Griffin Middle School, reassigned to assistant principal, East Cobb Middle School;
- Bradley Adkins, teacher, Sprayberry High School, appointed to assistant principal, McEachern High School;
- Jeffrey Burch, Athletic Director/Administrative Assistant, Centennial High School, Roswell, to become assistant principal, Kell High School.
The board also voted to approve additional one-year contracts to the members of Superintendent Chris Ragsdale’s cabinet. They’re the various department heads, and after a motion was made to accept them all together, board member Jaha Howard made a substituted motion.
He wanted the contract of John Floresta, chief strategy and accountability officer, to be considered separately.
That office is responsible for accountability, research and grants, communications and events and venue management.
Howard did not say why he was making his motion, and it failed.
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