Students of Distinction Program
After two years of seeing the successful ‘Challenge Grant’ grant of guidance counselor Kim Kozak, entitled “Students of Distinction”--that has very well received in the high school. Executive director Richard W. Snyder II recognized that Ms. Kozak’s project aligns directly with our Foundation’s objective to “reward students for academic or artistic ability.” This generally impacts every faculty member having to select a student who they feel has outdone themselves in their class, etc.—not necessarily the top student, but someone worthy of being honored. Then all students and their parents are invited to school during an in-service day afternoon, where they are treated to a small luncheon and a brief discussion about why the teacher chose that students to honor. The board of directors voted in April 2019 to make Mrs. Kozak’s program a permanent fully-funded project of the Glendale Education Foundation--which is now budgeted at $700 annually.
The first program was actually completed on the last day school was in session--March 13, 2020--before the COVID pandemic shut down all Pennsylvania schools.
The first program was actually completed on the last day school was in session--March 13, 2020--before the COVID pandemic shut down all Pennsylvania schools.