Pace School Presented with Award for Excellence

Pace School recently was unveiled as the winner of the Award of Excellence for the 2010 Excellence in Education Award from the Pennsylvania School Public Relation Association for its promotional video “Our Story, Our Kids”.

Pace School beat out strong competition from the likes of Pittsburgh Public Schools, Colonia School District, and other districts across the state to take home the highest honor.

Top winners of other categories on the night included School District of Philadelphia, New Castle Area School District, Upper Darby School District, and Pine-Richland School District, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Perkiomen Valley School District, Penn Hills School District, and Solanco School District.

The PenSPRA Excellence in Education Awards were created to recognize outstanding school public relations efforts. By elevating best practices and increasing the visibility of successful communication pieces, PenSPRA strives to encourage the highest standards of school public relations. An Award of Excellence is given to the top entries in each of the above categories. Awards of Honor are given to those entries that deserve recognition but receive a score that was not high enough for an Award of Excellence. 

PenSPRA is an award-winning Blue Ribbon Chapter of the National School Public Relations Association.

The focus of Pace School’s award winning entry for the category was its successes of former and current students at Pace School as well as an overview of its programs in Churchill and Butler County serving children with special needs. The video was narrated and produced by Michael Bartley of WQED fame.

An approved private school and partial hospitalization program, Pace School helps students in kindergarten through ninth grade break through social and emotional barriers to school success. Pace School Programs currently serve over 160 students from seven different counties.