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Business Advisory Council Honors Principals for Schools’ Progress
The Superintendent’s Business Advisory Council hosted a reception and awards presentation on September 14 to honor principals and their leadership teams for improvement on scorecards that measure school progress towards goals.
State Superintendent June Atkinson was the event’s keynote speaker. Council Chairperson Kirsten Weeks from Cisco Systems and former BAC Chair Bill Shore from GlaxoSmithKline assisted in presenting the awards.
For the first time, our business supporters provided cash awards for leadership teams for the Leadership Excellence Awards to apply to professional development activities. The categories of awards and the winners are:
- Leadership Excellence Award: Creekside, Oak Grove and Parkwood Elementary, and Rogers-Herr Middle Schools, for achieving the highest percentage of Scorecard High Growth Goals. Winners received a night at the Washington Duke Inn, a check for $2,000 for leadership development and a 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 made the most improvement in meeting goals from one year to the next.
Winners of the second and third categories mentioned above received a night at the Washington Duke and a commemorative clock.
Sponsors of the Awards program are: Platinum Level—GlaxoSmithKline, IBM and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA); Gold Level—Cisco, Bank of America, BB&T, BlueCross BlueShield of NC and the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club; Silver Level—Time Warner Cable and L.A. Downey and Sons, Inc.
