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Former ORHS Principal Goins headed home

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Jody Goins

Jody Goins

Information from WYSH Radio

Former Oak Ridge High School and now-former Knox Central High School principal Jody Goins left his Knox County post after just one year in order to take over the reins of Claiborne High School in his family’s native Claiborne County.

The 32-year-old Goins announced last week he was leaving Central after just one year, but initially, his new destination was not revealed.

Goins said that the move to Claiborne was done so that both he and his wife could be closer to their respective families. Goins, a Clinton High School graduate, worked at Oak Ridge High School beginning in 2004 before being named principal in 2009. At the time, he was the state’s youngest principal.

Goins departs Knox Central

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Jody Goins

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Former Oak Ridge High School principal Jody Goins has resigned from the job that lured him away from the Atomic City after just one year to accept another job.

Goins, a Clinton High School graduate, was appointed principal at Knox Central High School last year. His resignation letter to the Knox County School Superintendent did not indicate where he is going.

When he was appointed principal at Oak Ridge in 2009, he was the youngest high school principal in the state. Prior to being named ORHS principal, he served as a social studies teacher, assistant basketball coach, and assistant principal beginning in 2004.

ORHS Principal Jody Goins leaving for Central High in Knox

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Oak Ridge High School Principal Jody Goins has been appointed principal at Central High School in Knoxville, Knox County school officials said.

Goins has been ORHS principal since 2009. He joined Oak Ridge Schools in 2004 and served as a social studies teacher, coach, and assistant principal prior to his appointment as a principal, according to a Tuesday memo from Knox County Superintendent James P. McIntyre Jr. [Read more…]

Oak Ridge High School adds five minutes to school day

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School days at Oak Ridge High School will be five minutes longer starting today, Oak Ridge High School Principal Jody Goins said in a Sunday e-mail to students, parents, staff, and others.

High school students will now be dismissed at 2:55 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. They will be dismissed at 1:40 p.m. on  Wednesdays, a shorter school day in Oak Ridge.

The new schedule will be in effect through the rest of the school year, Goins said.

“As mentioned previously, it was recently brought to the attention of the Oak Ridge Schools’€™ Board of Education and Superintendent’s office that we need to modify our existing schedule slightly to fulfill the requirement set forth by the Tennessee Department of Education and the Tennessee School Boards Association regarding minimum instructional minutes per day,” Goins said in the e-mail. “In accordance with this requirement, we will be lengthening our instructional day by five minutes every day.”