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2008 Value-Added Achievement Awards

In a May 12, 2008 ceremony held at the State Capitol with Acting Commissioner of Education Dr. Tim Webb, Education Consumers Foundation President J. E. Stone presented awards of $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000 to Tennessee's highest performing elementary and middle school principals. (You can see rankings of every elementary school here, and of every middle school here.) Recipients were selected on the basis of their school's most recent 3-year average achievement gains in math and reading/language arts. Only those principals with 5 or more years of service were considered.

UPDATES FROM THE 2007 CEREMONY :
Click here for the event press release (PDF File)
Click here for images from the event
Click here for Dr. Stone's remarks at the ceremony (PDF File)
View a report from WBIR TV in Knoxville
View a summary of newspaper coverage (PDF File)

You can click on the flags below to review information from each winning principal. You can also visit the Value-Added Achievement Awards home page to learn more about the Awards and the ECF School Performance Charts, and see additional applications and analyses of Tennessee's value-added data.

I. Elementary Schools

A: Boones Creek Elementary Teresa Leonard, Principal 348 Christian Church Road Gray, TN 37615 Washington County Schools	B: Inskip Elementary Elisa Luna, Principal 4701 High School Road Knoxville, TN 37912 Knox County Schools	C: Copper Ridge Elementary Terry Frost, Principal 2502 E. Brushy Valley Road Powell, TN 37849 Knox CountySchools
D: Gordonsville Elementary Mark Medley, Principal 104 East Main Street Gordonsville, TN 38563 Smith County Schools	E: Cowan Elementary Raymond Council, Principal 501 East Cumberland Street Cowan, TN 37318 Franklin County Schools	F: Paragon Mills Elementary Mary Lou Del Rio, Principal 260 Paragon Mills Road Nashville, TN 37211 Davidson CountySchools
G: Douglass Elementary Angela Brown, Principal 1650 Ash Street Memphis, TN 38108 Memphis Schools	H: Macon-Hall Elementary Mary Anne Spencer, Principal 9800 Macon Road Cordova, TN 38018 Shelby County Schools	I: Walker Elementary Patricia White, Principal 9380 Highway 128 Savannah, TN 38372 Hardin County Schools

II. Middle Schools

J: Joppa Elementary School Curtis Wells, Principal 4745 Rutledge Park Rutledge, TN 37861 Grainger County Schools	K: University School Dr. Deborah DeFrieze, Director PO Box 70632 Johnson City, TN 37614 Washington County Schools	L: Clairfield Elementary Linda Keck, Principal 6360 Highway 90 Clairfield, TN 37715 Claiborne County Schools
M: Dickson Middle School Johnny Chandler, Principal 401 East College Street Dickson, TN 37055 Dickson County Schools	N: Smith County Middle School Ronnie Scudder, Principal 134 SCMS Lane Carthage, TN 37030 Smith County Schools	O: Fairview Middle School Brian Bass, Principal 7200 Cumberland Drive Fairview, TN 37062 Williamson County Schools
P: West Carroll Jr. High Lex Suite, Principal 760 Highway 77 Atwood, TN 38220 West Carroll Special School District	Q: Memphis Academy, Health Sciences Curtis Weathers, Principal 3925 Chelsea Extension Memphis, TN 38108 Memphis Schools	R: IB Tigrett Middle School Nelson Piercey, Principal 716 Westwood Avenue Jackson, TN 38301 Jackson-Madison Schools