Interim Commissioner Oliva Announces Florida’s 2022 Principal and Ass

Could 23, 2022

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Interim Commissioner Oliva Publicizes Florida’s 2022 Principal and Assistant Principal of the 12 months

Tallahassee, Fla., Could 23, 2022 – Florida Interim Schooling Commissioner Jacob Oliva has named Carolyn Davis, principal of Rutledge H. Pearson Elementary College in Duval County, the 2022 Florida Principal of the 12 months, and Stacia Werner, assistant principal of Beverly Shores Elementary College in Lake County, because the 2022 Florida Assistant Principal of the 12 months. Each honorees signify excellence in Florida training and have been chosen for his or her exemplary contributions to their faculties and communities, together with rising pupil efficiency, selling protected studying environments and establishing partnerships with dad and mom and neighborhood members.

Principal Carolyn Davis has a expertise for reaching faculty turnaround success. Beneath her management, Rutledge Pearson Elementary College has moved from a D to an A-rated faculty, marking her fourth profession A-rated turnaround. Principal Davis builds rapport with academics, asserts excessive behavioral and educational expectations for college kids, and celebrates pupil success. She is praised because the consummate skilled who infuses her ardour for training into each trainer and pupil engagement. Principal Davis is a real training chief who believes her main accountability is to make sure that her college students are studying each single day.

Assistant Principal Stacia Werner is a cherished member of Beverly Shores Elementary College’s administrative staff. Since becoming a member of the college’s turnaround effort in 2019, Assistant Principal Werner’s dedication, enthusiasm and keenness haven’t waivered. She is well known for modeling the values and attitudes essential for pupil achievement, and her teaching background gives a singular capability to construct pupil relationships. Assistant Principal Werner additionally works with academics on educational practices, meets with dad and mom and neighborhood companions, and maintains a core dedication to educational progress.

“College management is vital to serving the academic wants of scholars, households and communities, and Carolyn Davis has gone above and past in that mission. My honest congratulations in your choice because the 2022 Florida Principal of the 12 months and for a job nicely performed,” stated Interim Commissioner of Schooling Jacob Oliva. “My congratulations to Stacia Werner for her choice because the 2022 Florida Assistant Principal of the 12 months. Her management within the assistant principal function has supported each college students and educators whereas setting a excessive bar for others to emulate.”

“Carolyn Davis exemplifies all that’s good in academic management in public faculties at present,” stated Duval County Superintendent Diana L. Inexperienced. “She understands the highly effective function of relationships within the efficiency of her faculty, and he or she works strategically to develop morale, motivation, and dedication amongst workers, college students, and households, all of which change into a cultural multiplier within the calculus of pupil outcomes.”

“Stacia Werner is one of the best of one of the best and worthy of the consideration of Florida’s Assistant Principal of the 12 months,” stated Lake County Superintendent of Faculties Diane Kornegay. “Her energy in enhancing pupil achievement is matched by her capacity to create a robust and supportive faculty tradition, a spot the place everybody desires to be.”

Congratulations additionally to this yr’s different Principal of the 12 months finalists:

• Jennifer Ellis, Everglades Elementary College, Okeechobee County
• Amy Archer, Backyard Elementary College, Sarasota County

Congratulations additionally to this yr’s different Assistant Principal of the 12 months finalists:

• Sarah Dobbs, Oakcrest Elementary College, Marion County
• Sarah Ray, Wildlight Elementary College, Nassau County

The 2022 Florida Principal of the 12 months receives a $3,500 prize, whereas the 2 finalists obtain $1,500 every and the district winners obtain $275.

The 2022 Florida Assistant Principal of the 12 months receives a $2,500 prize, whereas the 2 state assistant principal finalists obtain $1,000 every and the district winners obtain $215.

For extra details about Florida’s educator recognition packages, go to https://www.fldoe.org/instructing/recognition/.

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