MBJH welcomes new principal

New principal Amanda Hood has been working all summer to ready Mountain Brook  Junior High for its students.

Mrs. Hood is a graduate of Troy State University with a  double major in mathematics and history, and in 2000 received a bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education. She later received her master’s and educational specialist  degree in educational leadership from the University of Montevallo.

She started her career teaching mathematics and coaching cheerleading at Oak Mountain High School. She then accepted the assistant principal position at Spain Park High School for six years before she joined the Mountain Brook High School family as  assistant principal for curriculum and instruction in June 2011.

Her husband, Jerry Hood, is the athletic director and head football coach of Clay-Chalkville High School, where he also teaches drivers’ education. They reside in Inverness and have four children in the Oak Mountain school system: Olivia (seventh grade), Christian (sixth grade), Daniel (third grade) and Vica (second grade).