Golliver selected as assistant principal at Liberty
Liberty Middle School has a new assistant principal, Jamie Golliver.
Jamie Golliver, assistant principal at Liberty Middle School
Liberty’s new administration will be working only with seventh- and eighth-graders, thanks to James Clemens High School. “I plan on working hard to make transitions as seamless as possible for everyone. I love Liberty and am excited to serve in my new role,” Golliver said.
In 1996 at Bob Jones High School, Golliver started teaching psychology and early and modern U.S. history. He has coached track, football, baseball and wrestling.
Transferring to Liberty in 2000, Golliver has taught seventh-grade civics and world geography for 12 years and early world history for one year. He was head baseball coach for five years and sponsored the Scholars’ Bowl team.
Born in Florence, Golliver graduated from Rogers High School in Greenhill. He earned a bachelor’s degree in secondary education with a comprehensive social science major at the University of North Alabama. This year, he received a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Initially, he intended to major in journalism and be a sportswriter/broadcaster. However, his teachers, Carol Harrison and Mary Gist, “had a profound impact through their innovative teaching styles. They cared for each individual student. The positive effect … led me to want to become a teacher and have that same effect on my students,” Golliver said.
Teaching for 16 years, Golliver has worked with more than 2,500 students. He saw students overcome bad situations to excel academically and athletically. Others with a strong support system succeeded by not taking anything for granted.
“I’ll never forget after my first semester of teaching. A student handed me a note that said, ‘What you taught us is much more important that what we could ever learn from a textbook.’ I used those words to help guide my style of teaching and still cherish them to this day,” he said.
Golliver’s duties will focus on instruction, discipline, athletics, textbooks and busing.
His wife Diana teaches pre-kindergarten in Huntsville. Their daughter Jocelyn will attend Northwest Shoals Community College this fall and daughter Anna Belle will be a high school sophomore.
