Arlington Christian School is pleased to welcome Mr. Martin as our new Principal!  He's a strong educational leader charged with developing, managing and growing our school wide vision!

Mr. Martin offers a list of impressive academic achievements, dedicated community leadership and a sincere heart and commitment towards Arlington's success!

He's a Christian family man, author of several books, technology guru and respected leader among his academic peers, just to name a few.  Please see his bio below!

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Shelton Martin - Bio

Shelton Martin holds a Master's degree in Teacher Leadership from Columbus State University, a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Computer Information Systems from Georgia Southern University, and is slated to begin the doctoral program for Education Leadership from Columbus State University.

He brings over 20 years of educational and technological experience to Arlington Christian School from his tenure in corporate America as a Systems Analyst for Aon Corporation and a teacher/leader in the public school sector.  His education career began in Atlanta Public Schools where he taught mathematics at Ralph J. Bunche Middle School.  He later transitioned closer to home and taught high school math at Winston Dowdell Academy for one year then transferred to his alma mater, East Coweta High School.  There he served on the School Improvement Team where he helped to craft school improvement plans and goals alongside school administrators and district leaders.  He served on the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Team to cultivate and encourage excellence in student behavior through positive reinforcement as opposed to focusing on imposing consequences for improper behavior.

Mr. Martin also co-chaired the Black History Committee, a group of teachers that created student-led, Black History Month celebrations at the Donald W. Nixon Centre for Performing & Visual Arts involving multiple district schools.  They also executed black history programs and activities that engaged students, teachers, and administrators on campus at East Coweta simultaneously.  Mr. Martin served as a Mathematics Horizontal Team Leader to aid in the professional development of the staff and curriculum oversight.  He also oversaw campus supervision teams tasked with ensuring student safety on campus.  

Mr. Martin specializes in utilizing student engagement to drive instruction, maintain a positive learning environment where students feel compelled to actively participate, foster student learning and achievement, and ensure classroom discipline.  He also focused on cultivating relationships with his students in order to motivate them to give their very best towards their education and exhibit good behavior.  This extended to his relationships with student guardians where he formed partnerships with them to improve student learning, attendance, and discipline.

Mr. Martin also served as a technology coach for his colleagues during the Coweta County implementation of Infinite Campus - an enterprise software system that spans a breadth of tasks for internal and external district communications, record-keeping, and business tasks.  Because of his technological background, he also successfully advocated for hybrid assessment strategies that leveraged online technological tools to capture and analyze student assessment data in real-time for the purposes of informing instruction, improving pedagogy, and providing focused remediation and enrichment activities that maximize gains in student learning.  He provided coaching and training for his colleagues regarding an additional myriad of digital and physical technologies.