Administration

Joyner is in his first year as principal at the Cooper River Center for Advanced Studies. He spent the last four years serving as principal at St. John’s High School. Prior to that, he served as an assistant principal and director of Wando High School’s  Freshman Academy for six years. A CCSD graduate from North Charleston High  School, Joyner immediately returned to serve in his home school district as a student concern specialist at Morningside Middle School in 2005 after completing his student teaching at R.B. Stall High the previous spring and earning his teaching degree from The Citadel.  Shortly after, Joyner became a middle school social studies teacher at Morningside before taking the same position at the former Brentwood Middle School in 2007. He served as a lead technology teacher and teaching coach at West Ashley Middle School for two years before joining the administration at Thomas C. Cario Middle School as an assistant principal in 2010. In 2012, he took the assistant principal position at what was then Sanders-Clyde Elementary Middle School, where he served for nearly three years. Joyner was then appointed as interim principal at Sanders-Clyde for one year.

Joyner is married to his wonderful wife, Tasha, who is also a long-time CCSD educator, and they have two beautiful children, Lauren and Jermaine (JT). Outside of education, Joyner is a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan and enjoys spending time with family and friends as well as fishing.