Lexington District One Board names Dr. Greg Little new superintendent
January 29, 2016
LEXINGTON, SC – At a Special Called Board Meeting tonight, Lexington County School District One’s Board of Trustees selected Gregory D. Little, Ed.D. as the district’s new superintendent. Dr. Greg Little replaces Dr. Karen Woodward, who announced her retirement at the beginning of the school year.
Dr. Little, 40, was one of three finalists the board selected earlier in the month. All three finalists recently spent considerable time touring the district, meeting principals and the senior leadership team, and in meetings with the board. The other two finalists were Alonzo “Lonnie” Ray Luce, Ph.D. and Jeffrey S. Salters, MBA.
Board Chair Debra Knight said, “Although all three finalists were strong candidates, our board believes that Dr. Little is the best fit for Lexington One at this time. His educational expertise and experiences will benefit our district as we continue our quest to create college- and career-ready graduates through educational excellence characterized by warm, personalized teaching and learning. The board believes that we have found an outstanding educational leader, and we look forward to continued success with Dr. Little’s leadership.”
Dr. Little currently serves as superintendent of Mount Airy City Schools in North Carolina, a position he’s held for the past four years.
Raised in a family of educators and a veteran educator with 18 years of experience, Little originally graduated in 1997 from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a Bachelor of Arts in English. Seven years later he earned a Master of Arts in curriculum and instruction, followed by a Doctor of Education in curriculum and instruction, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He began his career as a secondary English language arts instructor in Durham Public Schools in Durham, North Carolina, where he planned and implemented curriculum for middle and high school students, and developed a creative writing curriculum and study skills curriculum for high school students.
In 2001, Dr. Little joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a freshman English instructor, where he implemented cross-curriculum writing instruction for college freshmen.
Two years later, he became a secondary English instructor and coach for Durham Public Schools, developing and implementing a multiple intelligence theory-based curriculum for high school freshmen, and planning and coordinating workshops for English language arts teachers. He moved to the Wake County Public School System in Raleigh in 2004 as senior administrator of middle school English language arts and led district-wide writing instruction and reading.
In 2006, he became assistant superintendent of K–12 curriculum and instruction for Roanoke Rapids Graded School District in North Carolina where he budgeted and administered a wide range of K–12 curriculum and instruction programs, including career and technical education, academically/intellectually gifted, media centers, English as a second language, 504s, textbook adoption, homebound instruction, Title II, etc. and served as a Federal grant reviewer.
A frequent presenter about STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics), Dr. Little joined Mount Airy City Schools as superintendent in 2011.
He and his wife, Julie Gardner Little, have two daughters, Kaylee and Naomi.
The 360 square miles that make up Lexington One stretch from the banks of Lake Murray to the county’s southern border with Aiken County, occupying 48 percent of the county’s 750 square miles. The district serves more than 25,000 students from Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12 with more than 3,700 employees (not including substitutes) and 30 schools (17 elementary schools, seven middle schools, five high schools, one technology center). The district also has an alternative learning program called FOCUS.
