School Board signs on CCSD leadership appointments

The Clarke County School Board has approved the appointment of Jacinta Henry as the School District’s Executive Director of Special Education and Behavior Supports. The Board also named Veronica Johnson is the CCSD’s new Director of School Counseling.

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During its called meeting on Thursday, June 29, the Clarke County Board of Education approved two leadership hires in the Clarke County School District’s Academics and Student Supports Division. Jacinta Henry has been hired as the district’s Executive Director of Special Education and Behavior Supports, a position she has held in an interim capacity since late May, while Veronica Johnson was approved as the new Director of School Counseling.

Ms. Henry has been with CCSD since October 2022, when she was hired as Special Education Coordinator, and has 29 years of education experience between the classroom and school administration. She taught interrelated special education at the elementary and middle school levels for 14 years before becoming assistant principal at Magill Elementary School in Loganville in 2008. Ms. Henry moved over to Starling Elementary School in Grayson in 2013, where she served first as assistant principal and then as principal. Ms. Henry holds a bachelor’s degree in Special Education from Valdosta State University, a master’s in Elementary Reading and Literacy from Walden University, and a specialist degree in Educational Leadership from the University of West Georgia.

Meanwhile, Ms. Johnson becomes the new Director of School Counseling after 18 years as a middle school counselor in the district. She will take over for Tessa Barbazon, who earlier this year became CCSD’s Executive Director of Student and Family Supports. Ms. Johnson first joined CCSD in 2005 as a counselor at Hilsman Middle School and then moved over to Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School in 2008. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences and a master’s in School Counseling from Columbus State University.

Also on Thursday, the board approved the hires of Christine Havens-Hafer as the district’s Curriculum Coordinator for elementary English and Language Arts and Nathan Reincheld as the Curriculum Coordinator for World Languages. Those positions are housed within the district’s Office of Teaching and Learning. Dr. Havens-Hafer comes to CCSD from Piedmont University, where she has been an Assistant Professor of Education since August 2021, and Mr. Reincheld comes from Morgan County High School, where he has been a French teacher since 2018.

Assistant Principals

The board also approved two assistant principal hires at its meeting on Thursday. Dr. Randall Watkins has been promoted to assistant principal at Hilsman Middle School, a position he has held on an interim basis since February. He joins Mr. Nick Hussain as Hilsman’s two assistant principals under new principal Dr. Kenneth Vaughan. Dr. Watkins has been at Hilsman since 2009 as a teacher, athletic director, and instructional coach.

Tiffany Anderson-Mosley has been approved as an assistant principal at Whitehead Road Elementary, filling the spot left vacant by O’Marr Curry, who is now the principal at Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary. Ms. Anderson-Mosley comes to Whitehead Road from Indian Creek Middle School in Newton County, where she has worked as an assistant principal since 2021. She previously worked in CCSD from 2018-2020 as an instructional coach at Coile Middle School.

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