The Alabama State Board of Education on June 12 unanimously approved its meeting agenda and the minutes from the May 8, 2025 meeting, and adopted resolutions recognizing multiple educators and one school.
The board adopted resolutions recognizing Minh Thu Bauer of Bluff Park Elementary School (Hoover City School System, State School Board District 3) as the 2024–25 Alabama Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year; Jessica Harbison of Bumpus Middle School (Hoover City School System, District 3) as the 2024–25 Alabama Health Educator of the Year; Justin Kelly of Phillips Academy (Birmingham City School System, District 4) as the 2024–25 Alabama Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year; and Brandy Hall of Jasper High School (Jasper City School System, District 7) as the 2024–25 Alabama High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year. The board also recognized Oxford High School (Oxford City School System, District 6) as a 2024–25 American College Application Campaign School of Excellence.
Each resolution was moved and seconded and passed by a unanimous voice or raised-hand vote as recorded in the transcript. The clerk announced "unanimous vote" for each action. The meeting record does not identify which board member made each motion or who seconded for those items; the calls were recorded as "So moved" and "Second." No public speakers were registered for the meeting.
Other routine procedural items were handled by unanimous votes, and the board adjourned after approving a July 8, 2025 meeting date at 10 a.m. in the Gordon Persons Building Auditorium.
Votes at a glance: all votes listed below were recorded as unanimous in the meeting transcript.
- Motion to approve the agenda — approved (unanimous)
- Motion to approve minutes from 05/08/2025 — approved (unanimous)
- Resolution: 2024–25 Alabama Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year, Minh Thu Bauer (Bluff Park Elementary) — adopted (unanimous)
- Resolution: 2024–25 Alabama Health Educator of the Year, Jessica Harbison (Bumpus Middle School) — adopted (unanimous)
- Resolution: 2024–25 Alabama Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year, Justin Kelly (Phillips Academy) — adopted (unanimous)
- Resolution: 2024–25 Alabama High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year, Brandy Hall (Jasper High School) — adopted (unanimous)
- Resolution: 2024–25 American College Application Campaign School of Excellence, Oxford High School — adopted (unanimous)
The transcript records congratulations and a photo opportunity following the meeting. The record does not include vote roll-call names or breakdowns beyond the clerk’s announcements of unanimous approval.