Among the 78 employees of Brookwood School are 12 new teachers, coaches and staff members.

 Interim Headmaster Tom Johnson is among the new administrators on campus, although his professional career included 21 years at Brookwood, where he was headmaster from 1983 to 1993. Johnson retired last year as headmaster of Bayside Academy in Daphne, Ala.

 Johnson welcomed other new employees at meetings of the faculty and staff this week.

 Allison Harrell, now the school counselor at Brookwood, earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from the University of Georgia. For the past seven years, Harrell has been a school social worker and homeless liaison with Decatur County Schools.

 Meghan Waites received her B.S. degree in sport management from Florida State University and her master of arts in teaching, with a concentration in health and physical education from Georgia College in Macon. She is the new athletic director for female sports, the middle school physical education teacher and the varsity girls basketball coach. Her previous teaching and coaching experience includes three years at the Westfield School in Perry.

 Christin King, Brookwood’s new Lower School physical education teacher  who also serves in the Academic Resource Center, has a B.S. in early childhood education from Georgia Southern and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Mercer University. Since 2003, she has taught with second- and third-grade team teachers at Summit Hill Elementary in Alpharetta.

 Margaret Timm, a new teacher’s assistant in the Brookwood Lower School, will also sponsor the Middle and Upper School dance line. Her B.S. degree is from the University of Alabama in December 2012. A graduate of Maclay School in Tallahassee, Fla., she has been a substitute teacher and senior counselor of the Maclay Summer Camp in recent years.

 Bill Byce, a new history teacher, assistant football coach,and coach of Middle School boys basketball and boys and girls track, earned his B.S. in sport management at the University of West Georgia and his M.A.T. from Piedmont College in Athens. Since 2007, Byce has taught and coached at the Nathanael Greene Academy in Siloam.

 Jonathan Groover will teach English and coach girls softball and middle school baseball. He’s an alumnus of Brookwood, Class of 2002. His B.A. in English is from Valdosta State, and he is earning a Master of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in Orlando, Fla. His previous experience includes teaching at the Global English School in Bangkok, Thailand.

 Juan Restrepo will teach Spanish at Brookwood. For the past four years, he has taught at Albany High School. He previously taught in Greenville, N.C., and at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. A native of Colombia, he taught Spanish and English at schools in Colombia, where he earned his B.S. degree from the Universidad de Antioquia in 2003.

 John Carter Skeen will teach history and coach tennis at Brookwood. His B.A. degree is from Valdosta State and he taught last year at Thomas County Central, where he also coached tennis. Locally, he was the ATAC swim coach for six years and has directed youth activities at Thomasville Church of Christ.

 Mary Cameron Childs, a new administrative assistant, received her higher education at Darton College and the Savannah College of Art and Design  where she earned her B.F.A. degree in 2011.

 James Twilley and Rob Clendenin will oversee the maintenance and facilities, including 10 Brookwood buildings on the campus of more than 40 acres.

 All new Brookwood teachers have been assigned specific, experienced teacher mentors, who will work with them this school year. The teacher mentor program is headed by Ann Larson, who retired from 50 years of teaching recently, but is continuing at Brookwood for this and other special projects.