Rebecca Wood

Wood appointed principal of Pleasant Hill School.

Published July 17 , 2001Rebecca Wood was recently selected as principal at Pleasant Hill Elementary School.She will be replacing Dane Sorrell , who retired this year.Wood will begin serving as principal for the 2001-'02 school year.Wood has taught in the Cumberland County school system since 1989.She served as assistant principal at South Cumberland Elementary School last year , where she also taught eighth-grade math.
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Wood has also served in special areas including physical education , art and music.She previously acted as a sponsor for cheerleading , school annual , math team and drama clubs.Her parents , S.C. and Betty Maynard , have both been employed as educators in Cumberland County since 1975.Graduating magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Tennessee Technological University in 1989 , Wood earned her master's degree in instructional leadership from Tennessee Tech in December 1997.Wood said she is happy with her appointment at Pleasant Hill.She added that she feels like she is a part of the community.Her grandmother , Oma Leeno Cole , and both of her husband's grandmothers , Clarice Lewis and Lurlene Wood , attended Pleasant Hill Academy.Rebecca is the wife of Jerry Wood.

"By granting us the SACS accreditation, the organization recognized our efforts to meet exemplary standards for improvement and communicates to others our accomplishments as a school corporation," said Rebecca Wood, principal at Pleasant Hill.
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Students and parents were interviewed extensively by the SACS committee and Kotus and Wood appreciate these individuals for their help.

Rebecca Wood, principal of Pleasant Hill, said, "We're using it for storage right now, but I don't think it would pass as storage."

Wood said the floors were falling in and there are leaks during heavy rain.Water is currently shut off to the building.Custodial supplies, textbooks and other supplies are stored there.Students do not routinely use the building.

Options for the building include renovating, tearing down or fencing and letting it fall down on its own.

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Wood expressed concern about security if the building is fenced and allowed to continue deteriorating.

"Someone could get in there and get hurt," Wood said.

There is some sentimental value to the school, Wood told the committee, and a group in Pleasant Hill did not want to see the building torn down.But she said they understood cost would be a factor.

Community Techtonics is currently evaluating each school and will make a report to the board in June on recommendations for building upgrades at all facilities.

Pleasant Hill Principal Rebecca Wood said in this month's Communicator, "She is amazing!She can juggle more things and reach more children on their level."