Glenda Quarles Hammons, Ed.D.

Leadership profile of Glenda Hammons, Ed.D., a Florida K-12 educational leader and Senior Administrator at Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, Florida, covering her career history, leadership philosophy, and notable accomplishments.

Glenda Hammons, Ed.D. (also known as Glenda Quarles Hammons or Dr. Hammons) is a Florida educational leader with nearly thirty years of experience in K-12 education. She currently serves as Senior Administrator of Academic Services at Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, Florida, a role she has held since October 2022.

Her career spans classroom teaching, athletic training, school-based administration, and district leadership across ten schools in three Florida counties: Orange, Leon, and Seminole. She served as a founding assistant principal at Horizon High School, helping lead the school from a B to an A school grade, and led the districtwide launch of the Xello Course Planner for Orange County Public Schools. She also served as assistant principal at Olympia High School, Apopka High School, and Freedom High School.

She holds a Doctor of Education in Instructional Leadership, with an emphasis in Curriculum and Program Development, from Nova Southeastern University (2015), a Master of Education in Educational Administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1995), and a Bachelor of Science in Sports Medicine from Valdosta State University (1993).

Her leadership philosophy centers on building relationships that make staff want to come to work, and on helping students become better humans, not just better test-takers. She is known for mentoring newly appointed assistant principals and for organizing complex systems, from master schedules to districtwide course planning tools.

Contact: glenda.q.hammons@gmail.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/glenda-hammons-86780b228

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