During the August 20th school board meeting, the Kershaw County School Board approved several administrative positions including: naming Matia Goodwin as the district’s new Director of Intervention and Enrichment; naming Dr. Alana Powers as the new principal of Camden Elementary School; and naming Sharon Lewis as the new principal at Doby’s Mill Elementary School. These changes will take place over the next few weeks.
A veteran educator and Kershaw County native, Matia Goodwin has 26 years of education experience. For the past 14 years she has served as a school administrator in Kershaw County schools, serving as principal at both Jackson School and Camden Elementary. Dr. Alana Powers returns to Camden Elementary after attending the school as a child and spending a majority of her teaching career there from 2005-2017. Sharon Lewis is a highly experienced educator, beginning her career as a teacher in 1991. She has taught at all levels of early childhood and elementary education. In 2017, Lewis returned to South Carolina and currently teaches fourth-grade at Jackson School.