Burgess Named Interim Director

Burgess Selected as FSD3 Interim Director of College and Career Readiness
Posted on 04/27/2020

Leon Burgess has been named Florence School District 3’s Interim Director of College and Career Readiness.

Burgess has served as the Career and Technology Administrator at Lake City High School since 2015. As Interim Director of College and Career Readiness, some of Burgess’s duties will include managing relationships between FSD3 and higher education and working with a school-level collaboration team to refine a learning plan for students that seamlessly integrates high school and postsecondary education. In addition, he will advocate for dual enrollment and early college to the higher education partnership and help navigate the higher education culture, apprenticeships, internships, and work-based learning experiences. He also will conduct periodic meetings with parents and students concerning career and college pathways.

Burgess has served as an assistant principal at Ronald E. McNair Middle School and South Florence High School as well as an adjunct instructor at Florence-Darlington Technical College and Williamsburg Technical College. He also was a teacher at Lake City High and Cheraw High School.

Burgess earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Master of Education degree from Francis Marion University. He earned an administrative certification from Winthrop University.