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Two outstanding Georgia educational leaders—Philip D. Lanoue and Jack Parish—were recognized for their service to the field at the University of Georgia College of Education’s educational administration and policy program’s annual awards luncheon April 19 at River’s Crossing.

Parish, the associate dean for outreach and engagement in the college, received the nationally recognized Excellence in Educational Leadership Award from the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) and Philip D. Lanoue, superintendent of the Clarke County School District (CCSD), received the Johnnye V. Cox Award from the UGA department of lifelong education, administration, and policy.

Parish

Jack Parish
Parish (Ed.D. ’99), who joined the UGA faculty in 2008, was recognized for his contributions to the preparation of educational leaders as a lecturer in the educational administration and policy program after a 30-year career in K-12 education as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, assistant personnel director, assistant superintendent and superintendent, mostly in Henry County. He began his career as a teacher at Riverdale High School in Clayton County.

Parish has been involved in a number of activities, assignments and tasks at UGA that have provided service to students, colleagues, the field of educational leadership and graduate education. He was named director of the Early Career Principal Residency Program in 2010.  He served as the executive director of the Georgia Association of Educational Leaders (GAEL), engaging with the state legislative body on behalf of school districts and educational leaders. He was named a clinical associate professor in 2012 and associate dean for outreach and engagement in 2013. Parish earned his doctorate in educational leadership from UGA in 1999.

The Excellence in Educational Leadership Award nationally recognizes school administrators  who have made significant contributions to the improvement of administrator preparation efforts. UCEA is a consortium of higher education institutions committed to advancing the preparation and practice of educational leaders for the benefit of schools and children.

Lanoue

Philip D. Lanoue
Lanoue, who has led the CCSD since 2009, was recognized for his contributions to educational supervision and leadership, and consistently bringing schools and districts to higher levels of academic achievement.

“During the past two years, the Clarke County School District under the leadership of Dr. Lanoue has been leading a learning revolution in the realm of leadership evaluation,” said UGA College of Education Professor Sally J. Zepeda. “Dr. Lanoue’s work is revolutionary as our state struggles with finding an evaluation system that can accurately reflect the real work of the principal and purposefully link their work to school improvement.”

The school district’s Leader Evaluation System provides a strong structure by which to monitor the progress of the system and its principals and assistant principals in an ongoing manner. The evaluation system, which reflects growth and is a development model, is flexible enough to be applied to leaders at all stages of their careers and is rigorous in its implementation.

Under his leadership, the Clarke County School District has been honored as a Title I Distinguished District for being Georgia’s top large district for closing the achievement gap between economically disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students. In addition, all elementary schools, as well as Hilsman Middle and Clarke Middle, made 2011 Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), the state’s measure of achievement under No Child Left Behind. Both Cedar Shoals High School and Clarke Central High School are Advanced Placement (AP) Honor Schools for the state of Georgia. In addition, the 2011 graduation rate increased to 70.8 percent, an increase of 7.5 percent since 2009.

Lanoue was also instrumental in developing innovative partnerships including the revitalization of the Athens Community Career Academy. The Charter Program is a partnership between the school district, UGA, Athens Technical College and OneAthens. With a shifted focus on post-secondary education, Athens Tech faculty members were tapped to teach free college courses for school district students. He also worked closely with the UGA College of Education in forming one of the nation’s few Professional Development School Districts. Aspects of this partnership include university professors-in-residence — faculty who dedicate 50 percent of their time to a school or district location, college students taking courses on site and school district teachers and university faculty participating in continuous learning.

The Johnnye V. Cox award was named for the late retired College of Education professor who joined the UGA faculty in 1946 and developed the college’s program of supervision.  She was considered one of the preeminent early national trailblazers of the field.

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