Honors + Grants
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
2015
Early Learning Hub Steering Committee
South Coast Early Learning Hub
2015
Board Member
REEF (Reedsport Education Enrichment Foundation)
May 2015
Quancheng Friendship Award
Jinan City Municipal People’s Government, for distinguished service to education at the Jinan Foreign Language School, China
2011 to 2013
Vice-President
Oregon Small School Association
2007 to 2013
Executive Board Member
Region 1 & 3, Legislative Council Representative, Oregon Small School Association
2010 to 2012
President
Clatsop County Superintendent Group, NWRESD
2009 to 2012
CASCO League Delegate
Oregon Scholastic Athletic Association
2008 to 2013
Quality Education Model Best Practices Commission
Oregon Schools Review Team studying economic efficiencies related to academic outcomes.
2006 to 2007
President Western Region
Oregon Elementary School Principal Association
2005 to 2006
School Site Evaluation Committee
State of Oregon
2002 to 2003
OESPA & OSSPA Summer Department Conference Planning Committee
Confederation of Oregon School Administrators
2002 to 2007
Member – Staff and Parish Relations
First United Methodist Church, Salem, OR
1997 to 2000
Education Team, Community Task Force Member
Almaden Hills First United Methodist Church, San Jose, CA
GRANTS AWARDED
2008-2011
Small Rural School Achievement Grants
Technology innovation for instructional settings: Purchasing equipment for V-Tel Spanish Language, NWRESD ORVID course streaming, and OSU synchronous course instruction. These varied approaches targeted the improvement of students’ opportunities in three districts from 2008-2012.
2006
Woodmansee Art Foundation Grant
The grant funded the development of Pringle’s Sesquicentennial Mural Project. The mural was the students’ expression of Pringle over its 150-years of service to the south Salem community. A local arts council supported an artist in residence approach in which our students designed three scenes of Pringle’s school for a 30-foot outdoor mural. The students made ceramic 4 by 4-inch tiles, painted their portion of the scene on the tiles and fired and glazed them. The mural became a center piece of the school’s 150 year celebration and is currently displayed on the front of the school.
2000
Community Foundation of Silicon Valley Grant
Lynhaven Elementary worked alongside Partners in Print to develop a parent-training program for at home reading targeted to support parents of students who were second language learners. The Community Foundation of Silicon Valley grant sponsored a variety of evening reading events that helped parents understand how to work with their children in one-to-one reading in their homes. Part of the funding went to helping parents establish home libraries for their children.
1998
California Department of Education #1510 Grant
We developed a grant for the support of our 7th and 8th grade students in completing our eighth grade culminating project. The culminating project was used to evaluate our students’ mastery of English Language Arts standards in writing, public speaking and research using a project theme of their choice. We establish a video lab where students could practice public speaking skills with green screen backgrounds. Where were able to leverage the video lab for running our morning broadcast of Eagles Announcement.