By Mike Hutchens, UC Schools Communications Director
Union City, Tenn.–A handful of new administrators in the Union City School System hit the ground running Tuesday morning.
While it was business as usual for students in all three UC schools, Rene Flood, David Byars, Jennifer Bruff, Allison Palmer and Shane Sisco were each busy with different duties as classes resumed following the Martin Luther King holiday.
Flood is the system’s new Director of Teaching and Learning after serving as an administrator at both the elementary school and middle school for the last 16 of her 35 years in the education business.
Her new responsibilities at the Board of Education office include serving as a liaison to and mentoring teachers throughout the system.
Byars has assumed Flood’s role as Principal at UC Elementary School, and will be assisted by Bruff.
The former had been the assistant principal at Union City High School the past year-and-a-half, while Mrs. Bruff moves into her first administrative role after teaching the past 12 of her 15 years at the middle school.
Both greeted students this morning at UCES with huge smiles, each eager to begin their new tasks and build on the already-in-place education formula that has proven to be successful.
“I’m excited. I just want to keep all the good things we have going on right now, rolling,” Byars said. “This is a great opportunity for me, and I’m proud and humbled to be a part of the Union City School System in this new role.”
Mrs. Palmer also is a first-time administrator after spending the last 10 years teaching at UCES. She replaces Sisco as the assistant principal to Lance Morgan at UCMS.
Sisco, who served seven years as AP at UC Middle, has moved over to the high school to fill Byars’ spot and be the top administrative aide to Jacob Cross.
Director of Schools Wes Kennedy expects a smooth transition.
“We have high-quality people moving into different positions, and I’m confident they’ll do just as good a job in their new roles as they did in their previous ones,” Kennedy claimed. “All are qualified, and they each have tremendous work ethic and passion for our students.
“The most important thing is that, even though there might be a few new faces in administration, what goes on in our classrooms won’t change. Our students will be challenged and have the opportunity to get a top-flight education that will prepare them for whatever life-path they choose.”
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