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Mount Olive Board honors teachers, educational specialists and support staff across district
Summary
At a lengthy board meeting the Mount Olive Township Board of Education recognized teachers, educational-service professionals and support staff from multiple schools across the district, presenting school-level Teacher of the Year and Educational Services Professional awards and other honors.
The Mount Olive Township Board of Education used part of its meeting to recognize teachers, educational-service professionals and support staff from across the district.
The honors ceremony, presented during the board meeting, highlighted recipients from multiple schools including Mount Olive High School, Mount Olive Middle School, Mountain View, SandShore, Tintz Road and others. Presentations named building Teachers of the Year and Educational Services Professionals (ESPs), and recognized longer service, union and support contributions.
Superintendent Dr. Bangea and building administrators introduced the recipients and described their work in classrooms and school programs. Among the honorees called out by presenters were an eighth-grade English teacher at the middle school who was named that building’s Governor’s Educator of the Year; Julie Kester, recognized as an educational-service professional for her counseling work and long service in the district; Ian Redmond, who received the high school’s teacher award and thanked colleagues and family at the podium; Mary Hunt, a fifth-grade special-education teacher at Tintz Road; and Bob Norris, named the district’s security support person of the year. Many recipients used their remarks to thank family, colleagues and district leaders. For example, Ian Redmond said, “I’m incredibly honored and excited,” when accepting his award.
Presenters emphasized different qualities in different winners: long service and classroom leadership, work on literacy and intervention, collaboration with families, and school-safety roles. Several presenters also noted recipients’ extra duties — coaching, union or committee service, or work on intervention and math committees — that presenters said extended their impact beyond a single classroom.
The board closed the recognition portion of the meeting and moved on to business items and, later in the agenda, a motion to enter closed session. The recognition segment included dozens of staff and drew family members and colleagues to the meeting.
The board’s formal actions later in the meeting included routine consent-agenda approvals and a motion to enter closed session for personnel and attorney-client privilege matters.
