Phillip Dean is the new Principal of Reidville Elementary School, effective July 1.
Pat Paul is the District Five new Chief Human Resources Officer.
Heather Lister is the district’s new Director of Personnel, effective July 1.
• Phillip Dean is the new Principal of Reidville Elementary School, effective July 1. Current Principal, Kim Deering, will retire at the end of the 2017-18 school year. Reidville opens a new campus in 2019-2020.
Dean comes to District Five from Gray Court-Owings School in Laurens School District 55, where he has served as Principal for the past year. Before that Dean was Principal of Laurens Elementary School since 2008.
• Pat Paul as the district’s new Chief Human Resources Officer. She has been District Five’s Director of Professional Development and Teacher Evaluation, and she will maintain those duties in her new role. Paul has also served as Principal of Beech Springs Intermediate School and of Abner Creek Academy. She was instrumental in the addition of a magnet program at Abner Creek, and guided the campus through significant enrollment growth during her time there.
• Heather Lister is the district’s new Director of Personnel, effective July 1. She replaces Libby Grau, who retired as Director of Personnel. Lister served as Assistant Principal at D.R. Hill Middle School since 2010. She began her career as a teacher at Beech Springs Intermediate School, before being promoted to Curriculum facilitator there in 2005.