EBOE hires new Director of Elementary Instruction

The Enterprise City Schools Board of Education met on June 15 and unanimously approved the hiring of Christie Hughes to be the school system’s new Director of Elementary Instruction.

Hughes will replace Dr. Teri Prim in the position. Hughes comes to Enterprise after spending the past three years as the Alabama Reading Initiative (ARI) Regional Leadership Literacy Specialist with the Alabama State Department of Education. She had served as the Slocomb Elementary School Principal and First Class Pre-K Director from 2016 until 2019 when she left for the state position.

Previously, Hughes has also served as an elementary school assistant principal for Geneva County Schools and Dothan City Schools. She was also the ARI Reading Coach at Geneva County Elementary School and was a teacher at Geneva County Elementary. She began her educational career in 2005.

Hughes holds a bachelor’s degree from Troy State-Dothan in child psychology and also holds two master’s degrees from Troy. She has one master’s degree in Early Childhood Education and another in Instructional Leadership.

Current Enterprise City Schools Assistant Superintendent Dr. Zel Thomas – who was recently approved by the board to be the new school system’s next superintendent – sat in for Superintendent Greg Faught at the meeting as he was scheduled to be off. Thomas presented Faught’s recommendations at the board meeting.

In other business, the board approved the amended 2021 budget – which includes federal carry over money from the previous year – and a new salary schedule update.

The board also approved new contracts with RedInk for English Language Learners software for both the high school and junior high schools. The software for the junior high schools will cost $18,000 and $10,500 for the high school. The money for those programs comes from CARES Act funding.

The board approved the hiring of seven new students – bringing the total number up to 40 – to work in the school during the summer.

The June 16 meeting was the first for new school board member Jennifer Boykins. Boykins was selected to the board by the Enterprise City Council in April. She is an Enterprise native that graduated from the University of South Alabama with a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from South Alabama and a Masters of Biblical Studies from the Birmingham Theological Seminary.

Boykins has previously worked as a therapist at Pathway in New Brockton and Life Management Center of Northwest Florida in Marianna, Fla. She has been a Senior Rehabilitation Counselor at the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services in Dothan since 2000. She is also the founder of 2:20 Ministries, which is a ministry and mentoring service for girls and young women.

The school board also approved the following personnel list.

Leave:

Kayla Morlas, special education teacher, Hillcrest Elementary;

Holly Wilks, fifth grade teacher, Holly Hill Elementary;

Resignations:

Haley Lanier, second grade teacher, Harrand Creek Elementary;

Kelly Rase, fifth grade teacher, Hillcrest Elementary;

Megan Barbaree, English teacher, Enterprise High;

Rebecca Cranford, custodian, Dauphin Junior High;

Mareena Mills, special education teacher, Enterprise High;

Melissa Johnson, Spanish teacher, Enterprise High;

Amanda Commander, third grade teacher, Pinedale Elementary;

James Aplin, bus driver, Enterprise City Schools;

Erica Weller, CNP worker, Enterprise City Schools;

Chandler Collins, instructional aide, Enterprise High;

Jennifer Moseley, music teacher, Holly Hill Elementary;

Cedric Brown, custodian, Enterprise High;

Lydia Motes, school nurse, Enterprise City Schools;

Retirements:

Melissa Hanson, ARI reading coach, Pinedale Elementary;

Transfers:

Kimberly Garrand, interventionist, Pinedale Elementary to ARI reading coach, Harrand Creek Elementary;

Sunshine Jakubecz, first grade teacher, Holly Hill Elementary to elementary teacher, Enterprise Early Education;

Sandra Wambles, CNP worker, Holly Hill Elementary to CNP worker, Enterprise City Schools;

Michelley Carter, CNP Manager, Harrand Creek Elementary to CNP worker, Enterprise City Schools;

Nikki Cobb, fifth grade teacher, Harrand Creek Elementary to elementary teacher, Enterprise Early Education;

Elizabeth Cooper, math specialist, Harrand Creek Elementary to math teacher, Dauphin Junior High;

Tangela Sasser, CNP Manager, Enterprise High to CNP Manager, Harrand Creek Elementary;

Brandon Fricks, English teacher, Dauphin Junior High to guidance counselor, Hillcrest Elementary and Holly Hill Elementary;

Kimberly Pike, special education aide, Holly Hilly Elementary to special education aide, Hillcrest Elementary;

Amber Kennedy, CNP Assistant Manager, Enterprise High to CNP Manager, Enterprise High;

Melissa Bell, CNP worker, Enterprise High to CNP Assistant Manager, Enterprise High;

Haley Willette, special education teacher, Enterprise Early Education to elementary teacher, Enterprise Early Education;

Employment:

Lauren Debolt, special education teacher, Coppinville Junior High;

Billy Grubbs, PE teacher, Enterprise Early Education;

Whitney McHugh, math teacher, Enterprise High;

Charity Floyd, elementary teacher, Rucker Boulevard Elementary;

Emily Sanders, math specialist, Harrand Creek Elementary;

Jacqueline Hines, elementary teacher, Rucker Boulevard Elementary;

Kaely Smith, elementary teacher, Hillcrest Elementary;

Reginald Peterson, ISS instructional aide, Dauphin Junior High;

Adam Gossen, instructional aide, Enterprise High;

Elizabeth Gunter, special education teacher, Enterprise Early Education;

Rhonda Martin, English teacher, Enterprise High;

Dakota Hicks, family and consumer sciences teacher, Enterprise High;

Martha Sue Clark, bus driver, Enterprise City Schools;

Curtis Edwards, bus driver, Enterprise City Schools;

Elizabeth Raulerson, bus driver, Enterprise City Schools;

Latoya Mitchell, bus driver, Enterprise City Schools;

Rafael Arreaza Scrocchi, Spanish teacher, Pinedale Elementary;

Jennifer Barton, special education teacher, Pinedale Elementary;

Brittany Jones, ARI reading coach, Pinedale Elementary;

Marie Thompson, elementary teacher, Pinedale Elementary;

Donald Edwards, social science teacher, Enterprise High;

Chandler Collins, English teacher, Dauphin Junior High;

Viviana Montalvo, custodian, Dauphin Junior High;

Rachel Smith, English teacher, Harrand Creek Elementary;

Amy Davis, English teacher, Dauphin Junior High; and

Christie Hughes, Director of Elementary Instruction, Enterprise City Schools.