Colquitt Co. Schools awarded Literacy and Math Leader by Ga. Dept. of Education State Superintendent

MOULTRIE, Ga. – Local schools in Colquitt County have received special recognition for their achievements in math and literacy.

State School Superintendent Richard Woods visited Colquitt County to meet with school leaders, teachers, and students to honor three Colquitt County Elementary Schools for their exceptional progress and success in math and literacy.

Hamilton, R.B. Wright, and Stringfellow Elementary received recognition for their impressive growth in reading, emphasizing the importance of literacy in driving academic excellence.

“I’m just extremely proud of our staff and of our students. Of course our parents, too. Because without our parents, this award that we got today, it would not be possible,” said Courtney Almond, Stringfellow Elementary Academic Coach.

Stringfellow Elementary earned outstanding achievements in both math and reading, particularly for students who reached proficient learner levels or higher on the Georgia Milestones Mathematics Assessments.

This marks the first year that the Georgia Department of Education has recognized schools as leaders in math.

Courtney Almond, Academic Coach at Stringfellow Elementary, emphasizes that this recognition is a testament to the school’s unwavering commitment to education.

“It just says a lot about the effort that both our students and our staff fully committed to everybody brought in from our bus drivers, to our custodians, our office staff, our teachers, our support staff, our academic coaches, our administrators. At the beginning of the year, we signed a a list of collective commitments, and those commitments held us accountable for the actions that we want to see, visible learning actions and things that we want to see our students doing and growing throughout our school,” said Almond.

The GADOE, and these award recipients encourage students to continue striving for academic excellence.

“It’s not about getting something right or having something wrong. It’s about the learning that’s on the way. The journey. You might make a mistake, but learn from the mistakes that you made, but never to give up. And that’s what we try to do with our kids at Stringfellow. That’s to have that grit, the persevering to keep going through,” said Almond.

De’Andra Jacobs reporting.

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