Dear Colleagues:

Recently, the  University of Virginia Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa (PDK) announced this year’s award recipients. Each year, the chapter solicits nominations from school divisions in the county and Charlottesville City, as well as Fluvanna, Greene and Nelson counties to recognize some of our outstanding practitioners who best represent the chapter’s principles of research, leadership and service.

This year, in an unusual development, all of the winners were from our school division. Please join me in saluting Julie Lindenbaum, our chapter’s outstanding elementary school teacher from Hollymead; Janet Webster, outstanding secondary school teacher from Burley; and Rachel McElroy, the winner of our outstanding first year teacher award from Walton.

Michele Del Gallo Castner was the overwhelming choice for our chapter’s Alton L. Taylor Leadership Award. Albemarle High School’s Sarah Vrhovac, who is pursuing a college degree in education, is the recipient of the Rutrough Education Scholarship.

All of these extraordinary honorees will be recognized during Phi Delta Kappa’s annual dinner, which this year will be held on June 4 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Greencroft Club in Charlottesville. The deadline for reserving tickets is May 28. (The previous May 23 deadline was extended.)  You can download a reservation form on the PDK website.

I hope you will be able to be a part of this very special evening.

Regards,

Doug Granger
Assistant Principal, Agnor-Hurt Elementary School
President, PDK – UVA Chapter

Phi Delta Kappa is an international association of professional educators. Their mission is to promote quality education, with particular emphasis on publicly supported education, as essential to the development and maintenance of a democratic way of life.