Meet Melissa Edwards

JUNE 17, 2014 – Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools is celebrating the 50^th anniversary of the consolidation of the city and county school systems. As part of that, we’re recognizing people who are a product of the school system who now work for the school system.

Melissa Edwards

Melissa Edwards, who graduated from East Forsyth High School in 1997, is a District Instructional Technologist.

Edwards went to Griffith Elementary School through second grade and completed elementary school at Hall-Woodward. She went to Philo Middle School. When she was a junior at East, she was seriously injured when another car struck her car as she was leaving school. “I had just made the varsity volleyball team,” Edward said.

She was unable to go to school for a number of weeks. When she was able to return for the second semester, the people in the school system arranged it so that she could spend her mornings at Parkland High School, which had a block schedule that enabled her to take classes she had missed, and her afternoons at East so that she could catch up with her classes.

“I have a lot to be thankful for in how they worked with us,” Edwards said.

She also worked hard to be ready to try out for the volleyball team for her senior year. She made it. “That was one of my goals,” Edward said.

Because of everything she had gone through and how well she had succeeded, she was one of the students from throughout the state invited to represent their school districts when Gov. Jim Hunt was inaugurated.

Edwards joined the school system in 2007 as a teacher at Diggs Elementary School. She also taught at Forest Park Elementary School before going to work out of Central Office. She likes working for the school system. 

“It’s a neat way to pay back everything that was done for me,” Edwards said.