The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Board of Education has approved new principals for two schools. LaJoi Wilson-Moore will lead the WS/FCS Virtual Academy and Scarlet Owens is the new principal of North Hills Elementary School.
Wilson-Moore has worked in Virginia and Illinois school districts but has been an administrator with WS/FCS at North Hills Elementary, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Hill Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School, and Ibraham Elementary School. She has worked as an adjunct professor at several universities.
She is a graduate of Hampton University and Southern Illinois University, where she was a teaching and principal fellow. Wilson-Moore is a career educator with 32 years of experience and was the WS/FCS Assistant Principal of the Year in 2022.
She begins her new role on August 30.
Owens served as a principal at Boonville Elementary School in Yadkin County Schools and at Ashley Academy in WS/FCS. She was also an assistant principal at Kernersville Middle School and Hall-Woodward Elementary School.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from North Carolina Central University and an add-on license in English as a Second Language from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has a Master’s Degree in Education for Educational Leadership from the University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. She also completed the Executive Development Program at the National Institute for School Leadership in Winston-Salem, NC.
She begins her new role immediately.