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Pictured Standing (L-R): Mike Sparks, Dr. LeVon Wilson, Mike Herndon, Cheri Wagner Seated (L-R): Anshul Jain, Maurice Hill, Vernon Littles, Steve Hein.

District 1

District 2

Cheri Wagner

Mike Sparks

912.852.3495 (H) cwagner@bulloch.k12.ga.us Term: 1/1/13 – 12/31/16

912.842.2460 (H) msparks@bulloch.k12.ga.us Term: 1/1/11 – 12/31/18

District 3

District 4

Dr. LeVon Wilson

Steve Hein

912.489.6688 (H) lwilson@bulloch.k12.ga.us Term: 1/1/13 – 12/31/16

912.478.0831 (W) 912.764.4395 (H) shein@georgiasouthern.edu Term: 1/1/11 – 12/31/18

District 5

District 6

Vernon Littles

Anshul Jain

912.478.5201 (W) 912.489.1188 (H) vernonlttls@yahoo.com Term: 5/13/10 – 12/31/14

912.536.7109 (C) jain4boe@aol.com Term: 1/1/11 – 12/31/14

District 7

District 8

Mike Herndon, Vice Chairman

Maurice Hill, Chairman

912.681.4619 (W) 912.839.3917 (H) statesboroagency@gmail.com Term: 9/14/06 – 12/31/16

912.764.7134 (W&H) hillmaurice@yahoo.com Term: 1/1/05 – 12/31/16

Stewardship of Resources

College

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Readiness

Community Collaboration

Economic Development

Putting the Pieces in Place

Superintendent of Schools Charles G. Wilson, Jr., CPA, MBA Superintendent of Schools cwilson@bulloch.k12.ga.us Assistant: Mary Henley mhenley@bulloch.k12.ga.us 912.212.8505

School System Brief

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2013

2014

Student Enrollment Graduation Rate (Cohort) Per Pupil Expenditures

9,891 73% $7,171

10,044 71.7% $7,423.38

% Change 1.2% 5.8% 3.51%

Superintendent’s Message Putting the Pieces in place for Our Community This is a pivotal time in public education. National debates over academic standards coupled with Georgia’s new systems for teacher and leader effectiveness, school accountability, standardized testing and the upcoming school flexibility options, plus local changes in leadership, all have the potential to create uncertainty for public education. Time and circumstances also have many of these necessary state and local changes happening all at once.

In the midst of these changes, we assure you that Bulloch County Schools will continue to forge on with high expectations and high standards for our students.

To accomplish this we are re-focusing, re-building, and putting the pieces in place to make Bulloch County Schools into something better, something that each of you, our students, and the community deserve. This is neither an easy task, nor one where there will be complete consensus. It will take vision, persistence, trust, love, patience, faith, hard work, smart work, and all of us working together.

“When you are talking about reform, no one wants it. When you are in the middle of reform, it is brutally painful. And after reform, you wish you had done more of it; and sooner.” - Tony Blair To guide our efforts, the Bulloch County Board of Education has developed a strategic plan with input from all stakeholder groups and with consideration of mandatory performance targets. This plan is the foundation and roadmap for our common vision, and we are empowering the leadership within each school to help make it happen.

The plan will guide the development of all school-level improvement plans and system-level departmental plans. It will drive the development of data-oriented solutions, which will in turn drive our daily actions.

Under our leadership and with support from our Board of Education, this school system will not shrink in the face of these challenges, and we will not shirk our duty to do what must be done. Our students and community deserve excellence, and that is what we will deliver.

Please join us in putting the pieces in place in the areas of college and career readiness, community collaboration, stewardship of resources, employee performance, and economic development.

Charles G. Wilson, Jr. Maurice Hill, Chairman Superintendent of Schools Bulloch County Board of Education

General Fund

2014 2015 (budgeted) (projected)

Total Revenue Total Expenditures

$68.8 million $71.3 million

$74.5 million $74.5 million

Learn more at www.bulloch.k12.ga.us

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Putting the Pieces in Place We are charting a new path for public education in Bulloch County, laying a foundation of excellence that will provide our students the opportunities they deserve as they face the hopes and challenges of the 21 st century.

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College & Career Readiness College and Career Readiness is one of Bulloch County Schools’ five strategic goals.

We encourage you to read the complete Strategic Plan at www.bulloch.k12.ga.us for more complete details about our strategic objectives and initiatives.

The strategic objectives for this area primarily focus on how we plan to prepare students across all grade levels (K-12) for college and careers. The Board of Education and Bulloch County Schools are putting key initiatives in place to address strategic objectives that deal with student proficiency, depth of knowledge, skills development, career awareness, career pathways, attendance, and behavior.

These are pieces we have put in place to address these areas district wide.

• C ommon Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS) - These are common standards, not curriculum, for kindergarten through twelfth grade in the areas of English language arts (ELA) and mathematics, and common science literacy, history/social studies and technical subjects for sixth through twelfth grades. Common Core demands higher rigor, relevance and depth of knowledge.

Bulloch County Schools is in year three of its CCGPS implementation.

• Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) – Written by our teachers during the 20132014 school year, SLOs are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely (SMART) goals that are focused on student learning and designed to measure student growth and achievement in courses that are not already being assessed by state standardized tests. This encompasses about 75 percent of our courses.

SLOs will give educators, school systems, and state leaders an additional means to measure success in the classroom.

• Benchmark Assessment System - In order to appropriately measure and report

student progress toward attaining mastery • Career Pathways – Georgia has 17 career of curriculum standards, administrapathways, and Bulloch County Schools tors and teachers identified the need to offers 15 of these. Students take core sets purchase an assessment (testing) system. of classes coupled with electives based on The district has put a system in place, and their chosen pathway. Bulloch County it will be used to create and administer Schools offers career activities and instrucdistrict and teacher-created assessments tion to students in kindergarten through beginning in the 2014-2015 school year. twelfth grade.

• Data Analysis Tool - The district has put • At-Risk / Alternative Learning Oppora data analysis software tool in place that tunities – expand opportunities for alterwill give teachers and administrators realnative learning particularly for at-risk time access to student data, so that they students and expanded uses for the can make more data-driven decisions for district’s Transitions Learning Center. school improvement. This will allow them to analyze multiple types of data, determine patterns, create goals to Employee improve or influence, and identify Performance performance measures.

• Dual & Joint Enrollment – The district has agreements with Georgia Southern University, East Georgia College, and College Community Stewardship Ogeechee Technical College to Career Collaboration of Resources provide these opportunities for Readiness high school juniors and seniors.

• Work-Based Learning – Exploring ways to improve Economic this program that would best Development meet student needs, such as a “ move-on-when-ready” option for students that match needs of local industry.

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Read the complete Strategic Plan at www.bulloch.k12.ga.us 5

Ready for Putting the Pieces in Place Employee Performance

Stewardship of Resources

College

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Community Collaboration

Employee performance is the second of our five major goals. Bulloch County Schools is creating a performance culture by ensuring that our administrators and faculty are trained in how to build teams, analyze data, analyze causes, develop solutions, and measure and monitor results in order to support a vision of change and to strive for continuous improvement.

These skills will better enable these leaders to take community input and formulate strategic and school improvement plans.

This continuous improvement training, coupled with the Board of Education’s vision for change, will provide the school system a foundation for its performance culture that is focused on student achievement.

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Continuous improvement training, coupled with the Board of Education’s vision for change, will provide the school system a foundation for its performance culture that is focused on student achievement.

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Employee Performance

These are some of the initiatives that we • Teacher Keys and Leader Keys Effectivedeveloped through continuous improvehave put in place to help our employees ness Systems (TKES/LKES) All public ment training, will give our employees perform at their best: and charter school systems in Georgia the knowledge, capabilities, and tools to • Adopted the Georgia Leadership Instiare required to implement the state’s new sustain these efforts, and identify ways to tute for School Improvement’s (GLISI) Teacher Keys (TKES) and Leader Keys improve what we do.

Leadership Framework for System Effectiveness Systems (LKES) for the • Implemented a new prescreening hiring Improvement, which is based upon the 2014-2015 school year. Bulloch County process for all applicants for certified principles of the Kaplan-Norton Strategy Schools piloted the program during the positions. The school system is using Management System, in order to provide 2013-2014 school year. The new evalusoftware to make data driven decisions a performance culture across the school ation system is mandated by House Bill between candidates, and applicants are system. So far approximately 125 school 244. now required to prepare a lesson plan system leaders, including board members, • Professional Learning Communities and teach a 15 to 20-minute mini lesson central office administrators, school (PLCs) – Bulloch County Schools is before a panel of teachers, the principal administrators, and teacher-leaders, have implementing PLCs to encourage collaband other administrators. The more strinbeen trained in this framework. oration, research, inquiry and action gent hiring process will help ensure that amongst educators to achieve better the most qualified applicants are placed in results for the students we serve. Faculty positions to teach our students and effect and administrators have received training student achievement. on this concept and schools have begun to • Other upcoming key strategic initiatives implement. include the following: • To ensure that success is sustained, • District academic content specialists to the school system is implementing a assist faculty in teaching math, English balanced scorecard management system. language arts, science and social studies A balanced scorecard will convert the standards and model best practices. solutions from the strategic plan into our • Implement a minority recruitment plan daily actions, and provide a framework to attract effective minority teacher for accountability. A performance culture, applicants.

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Putting the Pieces in Place

The community engagement initiative allowed us to collaborate with more than 700 people from all areas of the community to provide input into the school system’s strategic direction.

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Community Collaboration Employee Performance

Stewardship of Resources

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Community Collaboration

Economic Development

Putting the Pieces in Place Community collaboration is our third major goal. Bulloch County Schools and the Bulloch County Board of Education are committed to seeking ways to fully engage the community in meaningful dialogue about the education and academic achievement of Bulloch County’s children. In February 2013, the Board of Education embarked on a community engagement initiative that was the initial step in our strategic planning process.

The three-month project that ended in May 2013, allowed more than 700 people from all areas of the community to provide input into the school system’s strategic direction by participating in school councils, a community engagement advisory committee, focus groups, one-on-one interviews, online and paper surveys, and a community education summit.

In February 2014, the Board continued to build upon that initial community engagement process by hosting “Speak Up for Education.” More than 200 interested citizens and parents attended this event.

Increasing community engagement is one of our major strategic goals because it helps raise the community’s awareness of educational issues, gives the community extensive input into the school system’s planning process, helps us identify community needs and aspirations for the school system, and helps build a strong community base that supports our school improvement efforts.

As we move forward we will continue to establish partnerships with our local post-secondary institutions, community support organizations, regional employers and parents to best meet our students’ needs.

These are some of the “pieces” we’ve put in place for this strategic area: • Bulloch County Schools hosted “Speak Up For Education,” our second community engagement forum for education. The event allowed participants an opportunity to listen to and share input on issues such as early learning, college and career readiness, and Common Core.

• Our parent involvement coordinators are taking community engagement “off campus” by hosting Neighborhood Parent Universities at the MainStreet Farmers Market and in local housing projects. The events help show parents unique ways to support their child’s learning.

• The school system maintains partnerships with organizations that help serve the needs of children (i.e. the Averitt Center for the Arts, Boys & Girls Club, Statesboro-Bulloch County Parks & Recreation, Backpack Buddies, etc.)

• Exploring implementation of a Farm-to-Table plan with our local MainStreet Farmers Market and local farmers to provide fresh and nutritional foods for our school nutrition program.

Read the complete Strategic Plan at www.bulloch.k12.ga.us 9

Putting the Pieces in Place We are putting the “pieces� in place to ensure that our public school system is preparing our students for college and careers using relevant curriculum and technology.

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Economic Development Employee Performance

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College Career

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Economic Development

Putting the Pieces in Place Economic Development is our fourth major goal. The Bulloch County Board of Education understands that having a successful public education system is important to our area’s economic development. We are putting the “pieces” in place to ensure that our public school system is preparing students for college and careers using relevant curriculum and technology.

This is one reason why community engagement is so important. The relationships we forge with students, faculty, parents, business and industry help us gather input to ensure we remain relevant to the community we serve. This is the beginning of the change process for how we re-engineer our school system and align our programs, in conjunction with state and local work-readiness initiatives, to better serve our students and community.

These are examples of current initiatives: • Partnering with the Pathways to Prosperity Network to develop a community-based education and work-readiness system for ninth through twelfth grades, which leverages our high school programs, technical college, business and industry, and other community resources, to align our students’ opportunities with regional and state labor market needs.

• As part of the Pathways to Prosperity project, our superintendent of schools and P2P representatives performed an asset mapping by interviewing major industry managers, small business owners, school system counselors and post-secondary partners to discuss needed skills, work ethics and barriers to providing student services.

• Develop career pathways and academic programs that provide postsecondary readiness for students.

• Develop ongoing partnerships with regional employers to identify workbased programs that prepare students to enter the regional workforce upon graduation.

• Revise the school system’s Pyramid of Intervention process to effectively identify students at risk of not remaining on grade level.

• Develop a plan to ensure that students are on grade level by third grade and that they remain on grade level until graduation.

Read the complete Strategic Plan at www.bulloch.k12.ga.us 11

Putting the Pieces in Place Our fifth major goal is the stewardship of our resouces. Since 2008 Bulloch County Schools has dealt with the effects of a severe economic downturn at the state and national level. Though key economic indicators seem to point to a recovery, it is important to review the school system’s strategies and how the stewardship of resources allowed the district to still fulfill its mission of preparing students for post-secondary pursuits.

Bulloch County Schools used long-term cost-reduction strategies, a strong reserve fund balance, federal stimulus funds, and a staff attrition formula to reduce costs and close the gap between revenues and expenses.

Since 2008, the school system reduced expenditures by more than $11 million due to state funding loss, mandatory state program cost increases, state-to-local cost shifting, and erosion of local tax base value. During this time the school system’s sound financial management was recognized by state education leaders and elected officials as well as Standard & Poor’s, one of the nation’s leading financial institutions.

Employee Performance

College

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Community Collaboration

Economic Development

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Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Forecast 87.0

General Fund Revenues, Expenditures & Fund Balance ($ millions) Expenditures

Revenues

25.0

Fund Balance

82.0

20.0

These are some of our key initiatives for Stewardship of Resources: • Implement school attendance zones that optimize school capacity utilization.

77.0

15.0

• Implement a Farm-to-Table plan with local farmers that provides fresh

72.0

10.0

67.0

5.0

nutritional foods for our school nutrition program.

• Implement an activity-based cost management system to accurately reflect the cost of school system

62.0

FY '13

FY '14

FY '15

FY '16

FY '17

FY ‘18

FY ‘19

Fund Balance Policy Limits Maximum (set by state) - 15% of Revenues = $11 Million Minimum (set by local BOE) - 8% of Revenues = $6 Million 12

FY ‘20

activities and provide for efficient allocation of resources.

Stewardship of Resources

COMMON CORE MYTHS

General Fund Highlights ($ Millions) Fiscal year

QBE Revenues

Property Tax Revenues

Local Option Sales Tax Revenues

FY ‘08

$44.0

$15.9

$10.7

$73.4

FY ‘09

$41.7

$16.6

$10.4

$71.7

Revenues over/(under) Expenditures

Ending Fund Balance

Furlough Days (salary reduction)

Employee Positions Attritioned

$72.3

$1.1

$15.8

-

-

$71.1

$0.6

$16.4

-

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Total Revenues

Total Expenditures

Cost Cuts

FY ‘10

$37.7

$16.5

$9.8

$69.9

$71.1

$1.5

$(1.2)

$15.2

6 ($1,350,000)

FY ‘11

$40.3

$17.6

$9.9

$72.3

$67.2

$5.0

$5.1

$20.3

3 ($675,000)

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FY ‘12

$39.3

$17.3

$10.4

$68.7

$68.9

$2.0

$(0.1)

$20.1

2 ($461,600)

26.5

FY ‘13

$40.6

$17.8

$10.5

$69.9

$69.3

$2.8

$0.6

$20.8

5 ($1,169,200)

11.5

FY ‘14 (projected)

$39.0

$17.8

$8.3

68.8

$71.3

$0

$(2.6)

$18.2

2 ($470,000)

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FY ‘15 (budgeted)

$44.0

$19.3

$10.1

74.5

$74.6

$0

$(79,308)

$18.1

0

0

$4,125,800

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TOTAL

$11.3

Central Support Services $1,124,366

Other Support Services $115,694

Student Transportation Services $5,048,028 Maintenance & Operations $6,455,982 Business Administration $724,580 School Administration $5,240,193 General Administration $396,293

Instruction & Pupil Services $55,210,693

FAST FACTS ABOUT BULLOCH COUNTY SCHOOLS Elementary Schools ...................................... 9

African-American...................................29.0 %

#Free / Reduced Meals...................5,506 / 704

Middle Schools..............................................3

Caucasion.................................................67%

# Title 1 Schools..........................................13

High Schools..................................................3

Hispanic..................................................3.0%

#Focus Schools (CCRPI)..................................2

Middle/High Schools.......................................1

Asian/American Indian/Alaskan.................1.0 %

#Reward Schools (CCRPI)...............................2

Alternative Schools.........................................1

Per pupil expenditure....................... $7,423.38

# 2014 Graduates......................................544

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Bulloch County Schools Report Card College & Career Readiness Performance Index (CCRPI Scores) The College & Career Readiness Performance Index is Georgia’s new comprehensive school accountability tool that replaced Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in 2012. In that year, the U.S. Department of Education granted Georgia and nine other states a waiver from certain federal mandates within the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as “No Child Left Behind Act.” Data from the 2011-2012 school year was used for the tool’s baseline “study year,” and those results were initially released in May 2013. Since that time the Georgia Department of Education has

worked with the state’s school systems to revise and refine the tool.

The new calculations will require schools and their school systems to meet even greater expectations and new measurements such as school climate surveys that give faculty, students and parents a voice in grading their school’s climate.

Since the calculation methodology has changed from the first public data release, we’ve included the recalculated 2012 data for this report. This will give stakeholders an accurate way to compare Year 2011-2012 and Year 2012-2013 data. The state has not yet calculated data from the 2013-2014 school year.

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County

BES

JPB

LCES

MLES

MCES

NES

PES

SZES

Achievement Points

47.3

53.5

48.0

40.7

42.4

47.4

50.4

50.3

47.7

47.0

SES 14.1

Progress Points

16.3

17.8

18.4

15.0

14.6

16.1

16.6

15.0

17.4

Achievement Gap Points

8.0

12

11

6

5

12

6.0

7

12

5.0

Challenge Points

3.1

6.2

1.0

2.7

1.2

5.7

5.2

7.7

4.2

2.9

2012 CCRPI Score (recalculated)

70.4

79

65.9

61.1

57.8

70.1

78

81.2

64.4

74.2

2013 CCRPI Score

74.7

89.5

78.4

64.4

63.2

81.2

78.1

80.0

81.3

69.0

State Elementary CCRPI Score

78.5

MIDDLE SCHOOLS

County

LCMS

PMS

SEBMS

WJMS

HIGH SCHOOLS

County

SHS

PHS

SEBHS

Achievement Points

48.4

45.4

46.3

50.0

49.9

Achievement Points

42.6

41.7

39.8

45.4

Progress Points

17.6

16.9

17.0

18.2

17.7

Progress Points

16.2

16.2

18.9

15.7

Achievement Gap Points

6.0

5

8

6

8

Achievement Gap Points

12.5

11.3

12.5

10.0

Challenge Points

3.4

3.2

4.9

3.9

2.2

Challenge Points

3.3

2.5

6.3

4.5

2012 CCRPI Score (recalculated)

84.8

83.8

85.9

86.9

84.1

2012 CCRPI Score (recalculated)

70.1

68.2

74.0

75.0

FY2013 CCRPI Score

75.4

70.5

76.2

78.1

77.8

FY2013 CCRPI Score

74.7

71.7

77.5

75.6

State Middle School CCRPI Score

78

State High School CCRPI Score

To see Bulloch County Schools’ performance on all state and national assessments visit our website.

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Recognizing Excellence “Thank You to those Who See the Big Picture and Rise to the

2013-2014 Challenge Each Day to Ensure the Pieces Fit for Our Students.”

Bulloch County - Superintendent Charles Wilson Schools Lawanda Allen Bulloch County Schools’ Driving Force Retirees Bulloch County Teacher of the Year

Lawanda Allen, a music teacher at Langston Chapel Middle School, is Bulloch County’s 2015 Teacher of the Year. Selected from the district’s 15 schoollevel teachers of the year by the Statesboro Bulloch County Chamber of Commerce’s Education Committee, Allen is the second faculty member in a row from LCMS to win the title. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Georgia Southern University.

Since coming to LCMS in 2009, she has built a strong choral program at the school by encouraging parents, faculty and students to embrace her vision of a quality, competitive choral program. Their efforts have resulted in the LCMS Choir consistently receiving superior ratings at the Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA) Large Group Performance Evaluations. Students are also competing at GMEA District Honor Chorus, and All State Chorus.

What sets Allen apart is her willingness to meet student needs beyond music. She recognized that some of her students struggled with reading. Being qualified to also teach this subject, she volunteered to provide reading intervention instruction to sixth through eighth grade students.

“I know what research says about the impact of music education on a child’s academic performance, and I also know that children who read well are better able to sight read in music.”

The Bulloch County Schools Transportation Department is a “driving force” in our school system. These rolling ambassadors provide a daily first and last impression of our school system for more than 5,000 students. Our team of 113 drivers, 21 maintenance personnel, seven mechanics and 17 bus monitors work together to ensure that twice each day, these students are safely transported along more than 100 bus routes. Our bus drivers travel more than 6,000 miles each day for school transportation alone. When you add in the additional 52,000 miles that they drive for the more than 1300 fieldtrips and athletic events, they drive more than 1.1 million miles annually. The department has been recognized by the Georgia Association of Pupil Transportation and the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety for having one of the state’s best employee and student bus safety training program.

This year’s retirees have served our community a total of 697 years.

Milton Williams Charles Drawdy Elwood Wilson Pat Gibson Dorothy Jones Leigh Ann Mikell Pam Spence Neva Lennon Patricia Taylor Diane Allen Linda O’Dowd Holli Strozzo George Fales

2014 Transportation Honors

Bernice Kent

DRIVERS/MONITORS OF THE YEAR

Thomas

Team Brooklet.................................................... Charlene Williams

Pennington

School-level Teachers of the Year

Team Julia P. Bryant................................................. Leon Swinson

Rozina Shatteen

Jennifer Hutchens................................ Brooklet Elementary School

Team Langston Chapel............................................. Marilyn Jones

Gloria Smith

Teresa Fleming........................... Julia P. Bryant Elementary School

Team Mattie Lively................................................. Mike Copeland

Virginia Burgin

Tonya Gilchrist.........................Langston Chapel Elementary School

Team Mill Creek.......................................................Charlene Deal

Lisa Davis

Pam Mather................................... Mattie Lively Elementary School

Team Nevils................................................................. Tony Jones

Mary Emma

Dawn Beck........................................Mill Creek Elementary School

Team Portal..........................................................Clarence Allison

Pennington

Ashley Brown...........................................Nevils Elementary School

Team Sallie Zetterower.............................................. Lucian Lyons

Faye Webb

Carol Case............................................... Portal Elementary School

Team Special Education .............................................Paul Barnes

Patricia Taylor

Tom Marshall..........................................Portal Middle High School

Team Stilson.................................................................. Tyler Deal

Harry Baldwin

Lori Tidick................................ Sallie Zetterower Elementary School

Monitor of the year................................................... Betty Tremble

Ozell Burgess Woodrow Burns

Stephanie Mireles........................ Southeast Bulloch Middle School Ashliegh Wright............................... Southeast Bulloch High School

Elizabeth Byrd and Ozell Burgess – Director’s Cup Winners

Steve Hess

Shannon Anderson.....................................Statesboro High School

Amos Stowbridge, Jr. – Service Technician of the Year

Debra Smith

Felecia Mosley................................................... Stilson Elementary

Jared Fogel of Langston Chapel Elementary

Jeanne Smith

Janetta Alabi-Isama....................................... William James Middle

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Since its creation in 2006, the Bulloch County Foundation for Public Education has helped fund innovative classroom teachers’ ideas with more than 170 grants totaling nearly $132,000.

The Bulloch County Foundation for Public Education provides a way for individuals, businesses, industry, and civic organizations to invest in our community’s public education. The Foundation’s innovation grants help fund academic competitions, teacher of the year recognitions, unique classroom initiatives, and other student experiences that help support learning.

Through major fundraisers like the, “Statesboro’s Got Talent,” showcase, corporate giving and capital campaigns, the Foundation helps support the education of Bulloch County’s children. You can join in the Campaign for Academic Excellence by making a tax-deductible contribution. To learn more about this opportunity or to make an investment, contact the Foundation at 912.212.8530.

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