Limestone County school board members met briefly Thursday to hire personnel needed before school begins Aug. 6.
Board members took the following action:
• Created the following new jobs: ACCESS instructional assistants at Ardmore High School, East Limestone High School, Elkmont High School and West Limestone High School; and pre-kindergarten special-education collaborative teacher and instructional assistant at Johnson Elementary School.
• Hired the following new employees: Brenda Morrow as elementary teacher at Ardmore; Heather Crawford as elementary teacher at Cedar Hill Elementary School; Leanne Hudleston as reading coach at Clements High School; Khristina Smith as CNP worker and assistant at Clements; Angela Vanhoozer as CNP worker and assistant at Creekside; Patrick Chambless as mathematics teacher at East Limestone; James Gill as ISS and attendance aide at East Limestone; Vickie Stroud as part-time CNP worker and assistant at East Limestone; Kim Tucker as special-education inclusion assistant at East Limestone; Amanda Tucker as special-education collaborative teacher at Elkmont; Kathelene Atkins as guidance counselor at Owens Elementary School; Paige Gould as secretary and bookkeeper at Piney Chapel Elementary School; Kimberly Cunningham as special-education inclusion assistant at Tanner High School; Clarissa Glanton as elementary teacher at West Limestone; Sandra Thomas as special-education instructional assistant at Limestone County Career Technical Center; and Carol Jones as mathematics teacher at West Limestone.
• Accepted the following resignations: Garry Pressley as mathematics teacher at Ardmore; Jodi Johnson as physical education teacher at Clements; Leah Olson as itinerant speech pathologist at Elkmont and Reid elementary schools; and Ashley Lang as ACCESS instructional assistant at Tanner.
• Approved the following substitutes: Kim Evans for a CNP worker at Clements; Tammy Eddy for a CNP worker at Tanner; and Fredia Thompson as a CNP worker at Ardmore.
• Agreed to transfer the following: Richard Baldwin from bus driver at Reid and Tanner to Reid only; Sherry Scruggs from bus driver at Reid and Tanner to bus driver at Reid only; and Jamie Smith from half-time assistant principal and half-time language arts teacher at Ardmore to full-time principal only.
• Granted the following leaves of absence: Lynda Wray for the school year; Jennifer McLemore from July 29 through Aug. 30; and Melissa Nix for the school year.
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