St. Louis-Area Schools and Teacher Earn Special Honors
Recipients of Blue Ribbon Schools Award announced and area educator named History Teacher of the Year
The Cooperating School Districts of Greater St. Louis, Inc. (CSD) congratulates three area recipients of the 2009 No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools Award and a Washington School District educator recently chosen Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
The three St. Louis-area 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools are: Mark Twain Elementary, Brentwood School District; Cedar Springs Elementary School, Northwest R-1 School District; and Kennard/Classical Junior Academy, St. Louis Public Schools. All three are member schools of the Cooperating School Districts and will be honored at the CSD Fall Conference of superintendents and board members on September 24.
A total of eight public schools in Missouri received the award, which honors schools for helping students achieve at very high levels and for making significant progress in closing the achievement gap. All of the schools were honored earlier this year in the state-level Gold Star Schools program, conducted by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).
Nationwide, a total of 314 elementary schools earned honors this year. The 2009 Blue Ribbon Schools recipients will be formally recognized November 3 at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.
CSD congratulates Shirley Hillhouse, a fourth-grade teacher at Labadie Elementary School in the Washington School District. She was chosen as the Gilder Lehrman American History Teacher of the Year. Hillhouse has been a teacher in the Washington School District for 10 years and was one of eight state finalists for the Gilder Lehrman national award.
