The
Coweta
County
Board of
Education
approved
several
administrative
positions
for the
2007-2008
school
year, at
its
March 13
regular
meeting,
upon the
recommendations
of
Superintendent
Blake
Bass.
Jerry
Davis
was
named
the
school
system’s
Associate
Superintendent,
beginning
in July,
2007.
Davis –
who is
currently
the
Assistant
Superintendent
of
Operations
– will
replace
Associate
Superintendent
John
Dunn,
who
retires
at the
end of
this
school
year.
Davis is
a
31–year
educator,
and is
the
former
Principal
of Evans
Middle
School.
Davis
was only
the
second
principal
of
Evans,
succeeding
Herman
Fletcher,
who
helmed
the
school
from its
opening
in 1972
to 1988.
Davis
enjoyed
a
similarly
long
principalship,
lasting
16 years
until he
was
promoted
to
Assistant
Superintendent
in 2005.
Davis
earned
his B.S.
and his
Masters
degrees
from
Mississippi
State
University,
and his
Education
Specialist
Degree
from
West
Georgia
College.
He began
teaching
in his
home
state of
Mississippi
before
moving
to
Coweta
County
in 1985
to teach
at
Central
High
School.
He
served
as
Assistant
Principal
at Evans
Middle
and
Central
High
before
becoming
Principal
of Evans
in 1988.
Wayne
Outlaw
was
named
the
school
system’s
Assistant
Superintendent
for
Curriculum.
Outlaw,
who is
currently
the
Director
of Human
Resources
and
Professional
Learning,
is a
27–year
educator.
He began
with the
school
system
as a
teacher
at
Fairmount
Elementary
School,
O.P.
Evans
and East
Coweta
High
School.
He has
served
as an
Assistant
Principal
at East
Coweta
High
School,
Principal
of
Canongate
Elementary,
School,
and was
the
first
Principal
of
Northgate
High
School.
Outlaw
has
served
as the
Director
of Human
Resources
and
Professional
Learning
since
2003.
Outlaw
earned
his B.A.
in
Business
Education
from the
University
of
Alabama,
and his
Masters
and
Administrative
Supervision
degree
from
West
Georgia
College.
Dr.
Steve
Barker
was
named
the
school
system’s
Director
of
Administrative
Services.
Barker,
who is
currently
the
principal
of
Newnan
High
School,
is a 17
–year
educator.
He began
with the
school
system
in 1990
as
teacher
and
coach at
East
Coweta
High
School
and
Evans
Middle
School,
and
later
served
as
Assistant
Principal
of
Northgate
High,
Principal
of
Canongate
Elementary
School
and
Principal
of
Smokey
Road
Middle
School.
He has
served
as
Principal
of
Newnan
High
School
since
2003.
Barker
earned
his B.A.
in
Social
Sciences
from
Shorter
College,
his
Master’s
from
State
University
of West
Georgia,
and his
Doctorate
in
Educational
Leadership
from
Nova
Southeastern
University.
Rusty
Knorr
was
named
the
Director
of
English
Language
Learners
and
REACH
(gifted).
Knorr,
who is
currently
the
Director
of
Operations,
is a
37–year
educator.
Throughout
his
career,
and
before
coming
to
Coweta
County,
Knorr
taught
in
junior
high
school,
served
as a
junior
high and
middle
school
and
assistant
principal,
a
principal,
a
Coordinator
of
Special
Services
and
Federal
Programs
and a
Director
of
Operations.
He also
served
as
Assistant
Superintendent
and
Interim
Superintendent
in
Eufala
City
Schools.
He came
to
Coweta
County
as
Facilities
Coordinator
in 2003
and
became
Director
of
Operations
in 2004.
Knorr
earned
his B.S.
at Troy
State
University
and
Master’s
at
Auburn
University.
Sylvia
Hooker
was
named
the
school
system’s
Director
of
Professional
Learning.
Hooker,
who is
currently
a
Performance
Consultant
on loan
from the
Coweta
County
School
System
to
Georgia’s
Leadership
Institute
for
School
Improvement,
is a
23-year
educator.
Hooker
taught
in
Hartford,
Connecticut
from
1984 to
1995
before
coming
to
Coweta
County.
In 1996
she
taught
at
Northgate
Middle
School,
and
became
an
Assistant
Principal
at
Central
Middle
School
in 1997
and then
principal
of
Fairmount
Alternative
School
in 1998.
She has
worked
with the
Georgia
Department
of
Education
since
2002.
Hooker
earned
her
B.S.,
Master’s
and
Education
Specialists
degrees
at
Central
Connecticut
State
University.
The
administrative
positions
were
filled
with
current
Coweta
County
School
System
employees,
and the
system
has
begun a
search
to fill
the
vacated
positions.
At its
March 13
meeting
the
Coweta
County
Board of
Education
approved
several
administrative
positions
for the
2007-2008
school
year
including,
above,
left to
right,
Wayne
Outlaw
as
Assistant
Superintendent
for
Curriculum,
Dr.
Steve
Barker
as
Director
of
Administrative
Services,
and
Rusty
Knorr as
Director
of
English
language
Learners
and
REACH.
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