June 14, 2024

At its Thursday, June 13 meeting, the Clarke County Board of Education approved several school administrative appointments including two associate principals at Cedar Shoals High School and two elementary school assistant principals.

Nathan Reincheld has been appointed Associate Principal of Operations while assistant principal James Price has been promoted to Associate Principal of Instruction at Cedar Shoals. In addition, Dr. Magen Watkins has been appointed Assistant Principal of Johnnie Lay Burks Elementary — a position she has held on an interim basis since January — and Shante Thompson has been appointed Assistant Principal of Gaines Elementary. The high school appointments will be effective July 1, and the elementary appointments are effective July 19.

Nathan Reincheld

Mr. Reincheld has been with the Clarke County School District since July 2023 as the district’s World Languages Curriculum Coordinator. He has two decades of experience in teacher-leader and administrative roles and was an AP Research, credit recovery, and French teacher at Morgan County High School for five years prior to joining CCSD. He also spent seven years in teaching, coaching, and administrative roles at Rift Valley Academy in Kijabe, Kenya and was an adjunct professor of French at Asbury University.

Mr. Reincheld is a retired U.S. Army active-duty and intelligence officer and rose to the rank of Captain during his time in the military. He holds a bachelor’s degree in French from the University of Kentucky, master’s in French language education from Asbury University, and is currently pursuing an education specialist degree from Valdosta State University. In December 2022, he received the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Citizenship Education Teacher Award.

James Price

Mr. Price has been an assistant principal at Cedar Shoals since January. During this time, he has overseen the school’s math department and coordinated comprehensive professional development programs for the department’s teachers. He also established and managed the school’s freshman academy — aimed at ensuring a smooth academic and social transition for students as they enter high school — and has led PBIS implementation efforts geared toward encouraging positive student behavior and reducing disciplinary incidents.

Prior to joining Cedar Shoals and CCSD, Mr. Price was a science teacher and assistant principal at Kestrel Heights Charter School in Durham, North Carolina, and has also been an educator in Atlanta Public Schools. He has additional previous experience as the registrar at the BeSix Knowledge Academy in Decatur, Georgia, and was a project manager at Community Build Ventures where his focus was assisting other educators with professional development. Mr. Price holds a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education from Morehouse College and a master’s in Educational Leadership from Kennesaw State University.

Elementary Assistant Principals

Dr. Watkins has 18 years of educational experience in teaching, instructional leadership and support, and administrative roles. Prior to her appointment as interim assistant principal at Burks Elementary, she had been with the school as an instructional coach since 2021.

A native of Athens and CCSD graduate, Dr. Watkins joined the district in 2006 as a teacher at Barnett Shoals Elementary where she taught until moving to Burks. She has a bachelor’s degree in Child and Family Development from the University of Georgia and received her master’s in Teaching, education specialist degree, and doctorate in Teacher Leadership from Piedmont University.

Ms. Thompson is moving across town to Gaines from Whitehead Road Elementary where she has been an instructional coach the past two years and was a third-grade virtual teacher and EIP (Early Intervention Program) teacher at the school for two years prior to that. After nine years as an elementary school teacher in Barrow and Gwinnett counties, she joined CCSD in 2017 as a kindergarten teacher and gifted program collaborator at then-Chase Street Elementary (now Burks Elementary) and later was an instructional coach for the school before moving over to Whitehead Road in 2020.

Ms. Thompson holds a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources from Georgia State University, a specialist degree in Early Childhood Education from Georgia Southern University, and an M.A.T. degree in Early Childhood Education from Mercer University.