Awards and Honors of Staff

The Vision of Excellence award is given each year to employees of the district who: "demonstrate leadership on a consistent basis, demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement on a consistent basis, demonstrate commitment to customer focus on a consistent basis and demonstrate commitment to teamwork in supporting the vision, mission, and goals of the school district on a consistent basis."
This is the criteria listed on the letter of explanation. The award was the real basis for the creation of the Foundation, back in 1987. We wanted to recognize the excellent employees and support staff of JPS. Each year 10 certified and 4 classified employees are recipients of the VOE. District Teacher of the Year is automatically a winner. They each receive a cash award from the Foundation in addition to the recognition. Nominations are taken in April for the award, to be handed out in August.

Vision of Excellence

Karol Day 1994, Joyce Raper 1995, 1998, Cathie Searcy 1994, 2002, Rachel Bess 1996, Shannon McCoy 1997,1998, Cindy Tissue 1997, Emily Stover 1997, Patty Wood 1997, Susan Cronk 2000, Chiyaki Shans 2001, Jean Evans 2003, Chere Sammons 2004, Sue Ramsey 2004, Carla Taber 2005, Judy Hodge 2006, Susan Petreikis 2006, 2007, Stephanie Crabb 2007, Lindy Risenhoover 2008, Abbie Andrus 2009, Kim McDaniel 2010, Amy Berkinshaw 2012, Meredith Andrews 2012, Lauren Lukeman 2014, Beverly Burke 2014, Teri Brownell 2014, Marjorie Gooding 2015, Cathy Burleson 2016, PengPeng Jiang 2017, Beverly LiSooey 2017,Rachel Chinsethagid 2018, Rachel Hughes 2018, Emily Rojas 2019, Angela Harris 2019

National Board Certification