BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. – Berkeley County School District board members made several administrative appointments during Monday night’s board meeting.
New administrators were joined by family, friends and colleagues as they were recognized during the board meeting; all appointments passed unanimously by board members.
Marissa Watson was named principal of Cane Bay Elementary School, where she has served as the interim principal since last year. Watson joined BCSD in 2002 as a classroom teacher at Westview Primary. She has also taught at Westview Elementary, Whitesville Elementary and Boulder Bluff Elementary. She became an assistant principal at Cane Bay Elementary in 2014. She also attended schools in Berkeley County growing up.
According to the school district, Taylor Bradley will take on the role of Westview Middle’s new principal this upcoming school year following Sharon Perry’s retirement. He has worked in education for almost 15 years – all of it in Berkeley County. Bradley started his educational career at Berkeley Middle teaching Intro to Law Education. He continued teaching at Berkeley Middle for six years, teaching combinations of English and social studies. He then moved to Cane Bay Middle and taught seventh grade social studies for two years before becoming an administrator at Cane Bay High. Bradley joined the Berkeley High staff in 2021 as an assistant principal.
Brandon Gantt will take over as principal of Whitesville Elementary following Principal Katie Tai’s retirement, BCSD confirmed. Gant began his career as a reading interventionist in Newberry, South Carolina in 2011 before transitioning to classroom teacher at Newberry Elementary. He went on to teach third grade in Richland County School District One and then moved to Lexington-Richland District Five to teach fifth grade in 2015. He filled elementary and middle school assistant principal roles between 2016 and 2020 before being named Lexington County School District One’s Employee Development Coordinator in 2021.
William Wilson will lead Goose Creek High’s administrative team this upcoming school year. The board voted in February to appoint Principal Shameka Washington as the new Executive Director of Leadership & School Support for secondary schools within BCSD’s administrative services department, starting in June. Wilson has served as Gregg Middle’s principal in Dorchester District 2 since 2015. He previously served as assistant principal at Summerville High and Ashley Ridge High.
Mallory Kubisz is also joining the Goose Creek High administrative team as an assistant principal. She joined the Philip Simmons High staff in 2017, teaching world history, world geography, AP Human Geography and AP U.S. History. She has served as the school’s academy coach and testing coordinator since 2019, and has also coached varsity volleyball and varsity softball.
The contracts for the administrators named above begin in July, according to BCSD.
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