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 recipient 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, Cathie Searcy 1994, 2002, Shannnon McCoy 1997,1998, Cindy Tissue 1997, Susan Cronk 2000, Chiyaki Shans 2001, Jean Evans 2003, Chere Sammons 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 2013, Beverly Burke 2016, Teri Brownell 2016, PengPen Jiang 2017, Beverly LiSooey 2017, Rachel Chinsethagid 2018, Rachel Hughes 2018, Emily Rojas 2019, Angela Harris 2019

National Board Certification