Several elementary schools will have new principals at the helm next school year, with two current assistant principals being promoted to fill two of three principal positions.

Lisa Moore, the current assistant principal at Spring Hill Elementary School, has been promoted to principal at North Fayette Elementary School. Moore has spent her entire educational career in the Fayette County Public School System, starting as a sixth grade English teacher at Flat Rock Middle School. She later taught sixth grade English at the former Fayette Middle School before being promoted to assistant principal at the school in 2002 where she remained until becoming assistant principal at Spring Hill Elementary in 2009.

Jamie Munoz, the current assistant principal at Braelinn Elementary School, will become the new principal at Spring Hill Elementary, replacing retiring principal Randy Hudson. Munoz also started her educational career in Fayette County, employed as a sixth grade science, mathematics and reading teacher at Whitewater Middle School, and later as a sixth grade science teacher at Bennett’s Mill Middle School before being promoted to assistant principal at Braelinn Elementary in 2011.

Jennifer Couch, a former assistant principal at J.C. Booth Middle School, and the former principal at Hapeville Elementary School in Fulton County, has been hired as the principal at Braelinn Elementary. She is replacing retiring principal Wenonah Bell. Couch worked as an educator in the Fayette County Public School System for 12 years. She started as a ninth and 10th grade math teacher at Starr’s Mill High School, followed by teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies at Peeples Elementary School, and finally teaching fifth grade math, science and language arts at Kedron Elementary School. She was promoted to assistant principal at J.C. Booth Middle in 2007 where she worked until becoming principal at Hapeville Elementary in 2012.

These appointments were recommended and approved by the Fayette County Board of Education during a work session on April 9.

Also approved by the board were the transfers of several assistant principals. Christine Castagna and Stacie Coppola, assistant principals at Peachtree City Elementary and Fayetteville Elementary, respectively, will swap schools next year. Mitchell Pinkston, an assistant principal at McIntosh High, will also transfer to another school, which will be determined in the next few months.

Oatha Mann will provide administrative support at McIntosh High School. He will also pick up responsibilities as the Coordinator of System Athletics for the school system.

Additionally, the school system hired Amy Henley, a teacher at Spring Hill Elementary School, to fill the Response To Intervention/Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports Coordinator position. Henley has spent her entire educational career in Fayette County Public Schools, starting as a fifth grade teacher at Fayetteville Elementary School. She later moved to Spring Hill Elementary where she also taught second grade before becoming an Early Intervention teacher at the school, and then as the school’s RTI Specialist and Intervention Coach.