An assistant principal in Onslow County receives a prestigious statewide award.
Bridget Grady, assistant principal at Sand Ridge Elementary School, has been selected as the 2014-15 North Carolina Outstanding Elementary Assistant Principal of the Year.
This award serves as a way to honor assistant principals who are doing a superb job, according to a release from Shirley Prince, the executive director for North Carolina Principals and Assistant Principals Association.
Grady has been the assistant principal at Sand Ridge Elementary School for eight years; prior to that she was assistant principal at Swansboro Middle School.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina – Wilmington; an M.Ed from North Carolina State University; and an M.S.A from East Carolina University.
She holds licenses in School Counseling, Curriculum and Instruction and School Administration.
Grady will serve as North Carolina’s representative for the NAESP National Outstanding Assistant Principal Award Program, which promotes educational excellence for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade schooling and calls attention to the fundamental importance of the assistant principal.
Recipients of this award had to demonstrate exceptional leadership in a particular school program and high expectations for their school.
The NAESP will be sharing the successes and best practices of each state recipient in a document to be disseminated to all members.
Grady will also be recognized at the Spring 2015 NCASA/NCPAPA Conference.
