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Mrs. Martha Motley - Principal

Mrs. Motley is a graduate of Houghton College in Western NY where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education in 1999. Mrs. Motley graduated from UNCC in 2018 with her Master's degree in School Administration. She is also National Board Certified.

Mrs. Motley moved to Kannapolis from Western NY to begin teaching at Forest Park in 1999. During her 14 and a half years as a classroom teacher at Forest Park, she taught EC, second grade, and fourth-grade. Mrs. Motley served as the KCS Instructional Math Coach from January 2014 until June 2015. Mrs. Motley worked as the Assistant Principal of Instruction at A. L. Brown High School beginning in July of 2015. In 2017 she moved to Kannapolis Middle School to serve as an Assistant Principal. Mrs. Motley is delighted to return to Forest Park as Assistant Principal for the 2019-2020 school year.

 

 

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Mr. Bernard Waugh - Assistant Principal

Mr. Waugh received his Bachelor’s Degree in Augmented History and Secondary education from Houghton College in Western NY in 1991.  He went on to earn a Master’s Degree in Elementary Curriculum and Instruction from the State University of New York  Fredonia in 1998 and a Master’s Degree Certificate in School Administration from UNC Charlotte in 2018.  Mr. Waugh is also National Board Certified.

Mr. Waugh began his teaching career in Western NY, teaching middle and high school History for eight years before moving to North Carolina.  Mr. Waugh came to Kannapolis City Schools in 2001 and taught Middle grades Social Studies, ELA, and Math.  He became an Assistant Principal at Mooresville Middle in 2018 but moved back to Kannapolis in 2020 to become an Assistant Principal at Forest Park Elementary.

Mr. Waugh lives in China Grove with his wife and three children.

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Mrs. Natasha Sifford - Dean of Students

Mrs. Sifford is a graduate of Catawba College in Salisbury NC where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Education in 2009. Mrs. Sifford graduated from Western Carolina University in 2012 with her Master’s of Art in Education with a concentration in Special Education: Learning Disabilities K-12. In 2018, she received a School Administrators add on certificate. 

 

Prior to coming to Forest Park in 2018, Mrs. Sifford was a self-contained teacher at McKnight Child Development Center for 12 years. In 2019, after serving 1 year as a self-contained teacher at Forest Park Elementary, Mrs. Sifford became the  Special Education Teacher in the Resource setting. Mrs. Sifford is excited to be the first Dean of Students at Forest Park.

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Ms. Kerri Madden - Instructional Data Coach

Ms. Madden is a graduate of High Point University in High Point, NC, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education in 2017. Ms. Madden graduated with her Masters in Elementary Education with a concentration in STEM in 2018, and received her School Administration add-on certificate in 2022, both from HPU. 

 

Prior to coming to Forest Park, Ms. Madden taught both 3rd and 5th grade in Forsyth and Guilford County. Ms. Madden is excited to join the Forest Park family as the Instructional Data Coach.