Association of School Boards issues awards

DES MOINES — Susan Schaefer, with English Valleys Community School District, and Jennifer Birker and Kimberly Schirm, with Vinton-Shellsburg Community School District, received Individual Achievement Awards during the Iowa Association of School Boards annual convention in Des Moines last month.

The Association saw a record number of recipients for the awards program this year, Board President Elizabeth Brennan said in a press release. The total number of recipients nearly doubled in each of the three categories: individual achievement, team achievement and award of honor.

Individual Achievement Award certificates were presented to 218 board members from 92 school boards, four area education agency boards and one community college board. Recipients completed a minimum of 15 hours of learning in one year.

Team Achievement Award plaques were presented to 30 school boards who had a majority of board members earn the Individual Achievement Award.

The Award of Honor certificates were presented to 29 superintendents and one Area Education Administration chief administrator who completed a minimum of 15 hours of learning in one year; and had at least two individual board members in the district, AEA or community college who earned Individual Achievement Awards.