SHS assistant principal named finalist for Iowa education award

Jade Beehler

Jade Beehler was a finalist for the 2009 Iowa Assistant Secondary Principal of the Year award sponsored by the School Administrators of Iowa.

"It is an honor for us to recognize quality school administrators in Iowa," said Dan Smith, SAI executive director.

Beehler's peers nominated him for this state award. He will be recognized at SAI's awards banquet this coming August in Des Moines with other nominees and recipient Rick Colpitts of Dubuque Senior High School.

Recipients are selected based on the extent to which they promote the success of all students with:

- His/her vision of learning;

- The presence of a school culture and instructional program that is beneficial to student learning and staff professional development;

- A safe, efficient, and effective learning environment;

- His/her work with parents and the community;

- Fairness, integrity and ethics; and

- An understanding of the larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context in which we operate.

Beehler has been an assistant principal in the Spencer Community School District since 2000.

Before coming to Spencer, he served nine years in South Dakota schools as a teacher and principal. He spent four years as principal of Sisseton High School, two years as principal of Grant Deuel High School and three years teaching math and physics at Milbank High School.