TJ Principal Receives Distinguished Leadership Award
POSTED: 12:32 p.m. EDT, November 15, 2007
By: FCCPS Communications
Faculty and parents have long respected Trudy Taylor for her collaborative approach to education, her attention to detail and her ability to connect with everyone from the youngest student in her school to parent volunteers. Today, the Washington Post announced that Taylor will be recognized for her achievements as the Falls Church recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Educational Leadership Award.
“Trudy Taylor is a highly effective, creative and motivational leader,” Superintendent Lois Berlin wrote in her nomination letter. “She leads by example and she continues to be actively involved with the classroom.”
Dozens of people wrote letters of support, acknowledging Taylor’s extraordinary commitment to student achievement.
“Mrs. Taylor is well organized, pays attention to detail and knows what is going on in her building,” principal’s secretary Barbara Cooper wrote. “She knows what level of learning is taking place, as evidenced by test scores with satisfactory student achievement.”
“Anyone who spends just one day in Thomas Jefferson Elementary School would know without a doubt that it is a positive and uplifting place for children to learn,” the third grade teaching team wrote. “We owe this environment to the superb leadership we have in Mrs. Taylor.”
Students echoed that admiration for Taylor’s ability to lead. Third grade students in Jed Frei’s class wrote, “Mrs. Taylor runs our school amazingly. When you get in trouble, Mrs. Taylor doesn’t yell at you. She lets you talk through your problems and helps you learn from your mistakes.”
Taylor’s career in education began nearly 40 years ago in Florida. She joined the Falls Church City Public Schools in 1978 as a special education teacher and rose through the ranks over the years, becoming principal of Thomas Jefferson Elementary in 2003. Under her leadership, the school has repeatedly been recognized as a Distinguished Title I School by the U.S. Department of Education, and her school continues to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) as determined by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.
Taylor and other award winners from the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area will be formally recognized by the Washington Post at a reception later this month.
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