Gainey assumes new role, new leaders named
In above photo: Newly Executive Principal for leadership development Patricia Gainey (Submitted photo)
Special to The Chronicle
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools announces that Patricia Gainey will become the executive principal for leadership development for the district.
Rodney Bass will become principal at East Forsyth High School, and Shane O’Neal has been named principal at Kernersville Elementary School.
Superintendent Beverly Emory said, “The executive principal will serve as the point person for the development of the Leadership Academy along with a design team.”
Gainey, the 2014-15 WS/FCS Principal of the Year, has served as principal of East Forsyth since 2002.
Prior to that, she was an assistant principal at Glenn High School and a physical education teacher.
She earned a bachelor’s degree from Winthrop College, a master’s degree from Appalachian State University, and a doctorate of education from University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
Bass has been the principal at North Forsyth High School since 2010.
Prior to that, he served the WS/FCS as principal of the School of Computer Technology for Atkins High and as an assistant principal at East Forsyth.
He also spent four years as principal at North Rowan High School.
Bass earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in school administration from Appalachian State University.
O’Neal has served as assistant principal at Meadowlark Elementary since 2011.
Before that, he served as assistant principal at Old Richmond Elementary and as a classroom teacher at Vienna and Walkertown elementary schools.
O’Neal earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in school administration from Appalachian State.
