The Parent Teacher Association recognized Eagles Landing Middle School with the 2014-16 School of Excellence award recently.
The national award is given to 170 campuses this year.
At a ceremony in the school’s media center, Frank Barbieri, school board member and vice-chair, read a proclamation from the national PTA recognizing the work that Eagles Landing Middle School has done to foster family-school connections.
Congressman Ted Deutch sent a copy of the Congressional Record that was read on the floor of the House of Representatives on Sept. 11, 2014. The school has also received letters of congratulation from Gov. Rick Scott and Sen. Bill Nelson.
In attendance were Ian Saltzman, the Area 1 superintendent; Bonnie Fox, the principal that opened Eagles Landing in 1998; Palm Beach County PTA President Sandy Roth, the parents of the PTSA Executive Board, student PTSA representatives, business partners, teachers, and administrators.
The culmination of the program was the release of 40 native species butterflies in the courtyard. In her speech the PTSA President of Eagles Landing, Kendra Palumbo quoted Henry Ward Beecher who said, “We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
To be considered as a National PTA School of Excellence, PTAs submit a goal for school improvement that families, teachers and administrators have set together.
National PTA began the program to encourage family-school partnerships.