Shelby County Schools

Kasey Hollington will serve as the next Principal of Oak Mountain High School. Hollington has 23 years of experience in education and currently serves as the Assistant Principal at Oak Mountain High School. She previously served as a classroom teacher for 18 years.

Hollington earned a Bachelor of Science in Social Science Education and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Florida State University and is a National Board Certified Teacher.

Shellie Little has been named Transportation Supervisor for Shelby County Schools. Little has 28 years of experience in education, including 12 years as a middle and high school English and Literature teacher. She has served as the Assistant Principal at Montevallo Middle for the last 16 years.

Little received her Bachelor's and Master’s degrees, and an Educational Specialist Degree in Educational Administration from the University of Montevallo.

Holly Laney has been named Student Services Supervisor for Shelby County Schools. Laney has over 20 years of experience as an educator and is currently the Principal of Helena Elementary. Prior to her role at HES, she worked as the Director of Student Services and Special Education for Tarrant City Schools.

Laney received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Collaborative Education from Troy University. She also received a Master’s Degree and an Ed.S in Educational Leadership from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Sadie Kinlecheenie will serve as the next Assistant Principal of Calera Middle School. Kinlecheenie is originally from Maryland and moved to Alabama in 2019 to play Division II lacrosse at the University of Montevallo.

Kinlecheenie earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from the University of Montevallo and a Master of Education in Instructional Leadership from the University of West Alabama. She was named the Montevallo Elementary School's Teacher of the Year for the 2024–2025 school year and earned her National Board Certification as a Middle Childhood Generalist.

Robert “Ed” Wright has been named Assistant Principal at Calera High School. Wright has 13 years of experience in education, with the last 3 years in administration at Pelham City Schools. He has 10 years of classroom experience as an English teacher and has taught students across multiple grade levels. Wright began his career teaching 7th grade in Mississippi. His most recent classroom experience was teaching 10th- and 11th-grade English in Hoover.

Wright earned a Bachelor's degree in English and a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction, both from the University of Mississippi.  He also earned a Certificate in Educational Leadership from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2022.

Courtney Hallford will serve as the new Assistant Principal at Calera Intermediate School. Ms. Hallford has over 14 years of experience as an educator. She has served as a Teacher, Instructional Coach, Assistant Principal and most recently, Courtney served as the Reading Coach at Inverness Elementary.

Dr. Jana Baker will serve as the next Assistant Principal at Forest Oaks Elementary School. Dr. Baker has 10 years of experience as an educator, with six of those years being in Shelby County Schools. She began her career as a 4th grade teacher in 2016 in Sylacauga City Schools. She has taught 5th grade at Forest Oaks Elementary School for the past six years.

Amy Allen will serve as the next Principal at Elvin Hill Elementary School. Mrs. Allen has 20 years of experience working for Shelby County Schools. She began her career at Calera Elementary in 2006 and taught first grade for six years and kindergarten for nine. In 2021, Mrs. Allen became a Local Reading Specialist and for the past three years has served as the Assistant Principal of Vincent Elementary.

Shelby County Schools in excited to annouce the addition of new Pre-K classrooms for the upcoming school year. These new locations include additional classes at Elvin Hill Elementary and Inverness Elementary, as well as a brand new program at Montevallo Elementary.

To register for the new class at Montevallo Elementary, go to https://prek.alaceed.alabama.gov/.. Once your child is pre-registered, their name will be placed in a lottery. Montevallo Elementary will have a drawing on June 29th of students who have pre-registered up to that morming. The names of these students will be drawn until all slots are filled.

The remaining names will be placed on a waitlist. Students who pre-registered after the drawing will be added to the waitlist in the order in which they pre-registered.

If you already have an account and have enrolled your child in other locations, you can add Montevallo Elementary to you child's account. You do not need to create another account. If your child is already selected for another location, and is selected for Montevallo Elementary Pre-K Program, you will have the option of which location to choose.

Children's names are placed in two categories - Priority 1 (children who live in the school zone) and Priority 2 (children who are zone for another SCS school.) All names from Priority 1 will be drawn first, then all names in
Priority 2 will be drawn. Each child will be given a number based off the order they were selected.

Elvin Hill Elementary and Inverness Elementary have already held their lottery drawings and will proceed to go down the waitlist to fill the new classrooms. If you wish to register your child for these locations, their name will be
placed in the order in which they are received.

For more information visit the site below or contact Federal Programs Supervisor Beth Fuller at bfuller@shelbyed.org or Cheyenne Crumpton at gcrumpton@shelbyed.org. or visit https://prek.alaceed.alabama.gov/.

Calera Middle, Columbiana Middle, and Vincent Elementary School have been approved to provide summer meals for children under 18 years of age during June at no cost. Each Monday in June, from 9:00-9:30 AM, five breakfast and lunch meals will be provided. The five breakfast and lunch meals will be frozen and packed in an easy-to-transport box along with ten servings of milk.

To ensure there are enough meals and to comply with program requirements, families must register before meal pickup to obtain a ticket with a QR code. Registration is quick and easy. After each child is registered, a unique QR code will be emailed to the provided address. Check the SPAM folder if the email doesn't appear in the inbox. Open the email, scroll down to the “Order Receipt” section, and click the blue “View Your Order” button to see a copy of the QR code. Please print a copy (or download it to a mobile device) for each child and bring it for meal pickup.

Meals cannot be provided without a ticket that has a scannable QR code. There is a limited number of meals, so registration will close once all tickets are claimed for the distribution date. Families can claim a ticket each week at https://ticketharmony.com/shelby. 

Quantities are limited and are provided on a first-come, first-served basis. The QR code is unique for each child and site. It must be scanned for each child and can only be used at the assigned site.

Registration for meals will begin at 8:00 AM and follow the schedule below:
June 1st distribution - Registration May 18th - May 31st.
June 8th distribution - Registration June 2nd - June 7th.
June 15th distribution - Registration June 9th - June 14th.
June 22nd distribution - Registration June 16th - June 21st.
June 29th distribution - Registration June 22nd - June 28th.
 

More information can be found on our website at https://www.shelbyed.k12.al.us/page/summer-
meals.