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Superintendent’s Business Advisory Council Leadership Awards
Strong leadership is essential to a school’s success. That’s why Durham business leaders chose to honor principals and their leadership teams at the second annual Superintendent’s Business Advisory Council Leadership Awards. The awards event, held earlier in September, serves to recognize exemplary school leadership in meeting annual Scorecard goals.
State Superintendent June Atkinson was the keynote speaker. BAC Chair Kirsten Weeks of Cisco Systems and past chair Bill Shore of GlaxoSmithKline helped to give out the awards to principals and their teams.
The categories of awards and the winners are:
Leadership Excellence Award: Rogers-Herr Middle School, for achieving the highest percentage of Scorecard High Growth Goals. Winners will receive a night at the Washington Duke Inn, a check for $2,000 for leadership development, and commemorative clock.
Advanced Academics Leadership Awards: Southwest Elementary and Rogers-Herr Middle Schools for being the elementary and middle schools with growth in and the percentage of students in the Academically and Intellectually Gifted program, percent of staff who are AIG certified and the growth performance of AIG students on state tests; and Durham School of the Arts for being the high school with highest progress on SAT, AP pass and participation rates and Academically Gifted students’ growth performance on state tests.
Leadership Improvement Awards: Fayetteville Street and Parkwood Elementary and Lowe’s Grove Middle Schools for being the three schools that make the most improvement in meeting goals from one year to the next.
