Folsom named DMS Principal

The man who served as assistant principal and transportation director for the past six years at Daleville High School has been named Daleville Middle School Principal.

Ted Folsom is the new DMS Principal, announced Daleville City Schools Superintendent Dr. Lisa Stamps.

“We are very excited to have Mr. Folsom in this position as we move forward with getting our middle school off to a great start,” Stamps said. “He is a proven leader and is highly respected by our faculty and staff.”

Folsom was an administrator, teacher and coach in Georgia before he retired there. “Under his leadership, Mr. Folsom helped improve his high school’s graduation rate and helped lead his middle school to become a Distinguished Nationalist Title I School,” she added. “Mr. Folsom received his bachelor’s degree in physical education from Valdosta State University in 1986, his master’s degree in foundations of education from Troy University in 2007 and his educational specialist degree in educational leadership from Valdosta State University in 2008.”

Folsom said he is looking forward to the new position. “We’ve got great teachers, great staff, great kids,” he said. “We’ll stay focused on our major goal which is doing what is best for our students.”

Folsom and his wife, Kim, have been married 32 years and are the parents of a 30-year-old daughter and a son who graduated from Daleville High School in 2019.

In other business, the board approved the following personnel actions at the Daleville Board of Education meeting June 30:

Resignations:

Adriane Creel, Daleville Middle School seventh and eighth grade special education teacher;

Jaqueline Hines, DMS sixth grade teacher;

Brittany Jones, Windham Elementary School reading coach;

Dawn War, Daleville City Schools Interventionist;

SaBrina Lewis, DMS English teacher;

Kim Cook, WES Pre-K teacher;

Natasha Chalker, WES teacher;

Transfers:

Angelia Fulford, 10-month assistant principal at DMS/Daleville High School from social studies teacher at DHS;

Gregory Pittman, seventh grade science teacher from 8th grade science teacher at DMS;

Kimberly Newby, fifth grade math teacher from fifth grade ELA at DMS;

Emile Jones, reading teacher at DHS from special education teacher at DHS;

Maryann Littlejohn, DMS math interventionist from WES math interventionist;

Allie Garner, sixth grade ELA teacher from eighth grade ELA teacher;

Kaylee Spann, WES reading coach from first/second grade transition teacher;

Jana Foxworth, first/second grade transition teacher from first grade teacher at WES;

New hires:

Casey Cameron, elementary teacher at WES;

Kirby Fox, eighth grade science teacher;

Misty Watkins, eighth grade math teacher at DMS;

Jacqueline Bledsoe, fifth grade ELA teacher at DMS;

Emily Alos, sixth grade science teacher at DMS;

Tim Waller, social studies teacher at DHS and varsity girls basketball coach;

Charles Windham, science teacher; and,

Casey Williams, eighth grade English at DMS.

The next meeting of the DBOE is Wednesday, July 21, at 4:30 p.m. in the schools central office. The meeting is open to the public