The Greene County School System has added Crystal Parten to the district leadership team as the director of teaching and learning. In this role, she will be primarily responsible for curriculum choice, planning, alignment, and implementation, all of which are crucial to a school district’s essential function of teaching and learning.

Over the past couple years, Greene County athletics have seen an uptick in production, and Derrick Williams played a big role in that. Williams has been the girls’ basketball head coach for the past two seasons and was promoted to athletic director by Greene’s principal Eddie Hood at the beginning of this school year.

Victory Train, an early childhood education program in Greensboro, is committed to empowering parents with the necessary skills and resources to enhance students’ educational paths in school. It has proven to be a good resource to the Greene County school system by partnering with teachers and students throughout the district.

Dear Editor: This November, we have so much to be thankful for here at the Greene County School System, and I’d like to start by thanking our community for passing the ESPLOST education 1% sales tax renewal last week.

The Greene County School System (GCSS) has named five 8th grade students to this year’s class of REACH Georgia Scholarship recipients. TiraJai Heath, Jamari Johnson, Justin Robertson, and Torriah Stinson from Anita White Carson Middle School and Jack Alvarez from Lake Oconee Academy make up the Greene County School System’s sixth class of REACH scholars since the school system joined the program in 2017 under the guidance and encouragement of Tom Kelly, co-founder with his wife Kathy of the Greensboro Dreamers.

The Greene County School System named Sharda Massey its 2023 District Teacher of the Year and recognized all three school Teachers of the Year at a reception Oct. 4.

The Greene County School System (GCSS) just concluded its series of three public community planning and input sessions for the development of its next strategic plan. The school system is only one of a few statewide that initiates public input for development of its plan.

Both Lake Oconee Academy and the Greene County School System are working on their five-year strategic plans, but they are developing their plans independent of each other. The long-range plans are being developed as LOA’s lawsuit against the Board of Education is well into its third year with no end in sight.

The Greene County School System (GCSS) was presented with an award for financial reporting at this month’s Board of Education (BOE) meeting.