Norma Penny won the Gradient Learning School Leader of the Year Award. Congratulations!
Summit Learning’s Managing Director of Implementation Success, Nicholas Kim, presented the inaugural Gradient Learning School Leader of the Year Award to Norma Penny posthumously recently at the library bearing her name at Lomax Middle School. The award will now be presented annually to principals and assistant principals nationwide who rethink, reimagine, and rebuild education by passionately working together with their communities.
Surrounded by Norma’s friends, family and her Carter Lomax extended family, her husband Vaughn received the award on her behalf.
“She would have appreciated this award and being here with you all,” said Mr. Penny as he emotionally thanked everyone. “She really would have loved to be here.”
Kim opened the floor for others to speak of Norma Penny’s impact and successes.
Among those, Lomax Assistant Principal Lela Mills shared that the Lomax Staff wanted to ensure Norma Penny’s legacy lived on by providing new books called Penny Books that are on display and have a label inside that testifies to Norma Penny and her contributions and her love of reading. Every year, new books will be selected for display as Penny Books and placed into circulation the following year with the same format.
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