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Joy Schroerlucke Named Outstanding Middle School Principal

Georgia PTA honors Holcomb Bridge Middle School leader.

Holcomb Bridge Middle's Joy Schroerlucke has been deemed "outstanding."

The Georgia PTA named her the 2013-14 Middle School Outstanding Principal at the recent Georgia PTA Convention Leadership & Training Conference in Atlanta.

The award recognizes principals who support local PTAs by participating in the organization and its programs and by encouraging parental participation.  

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“I am truly honored to receive this special award celebrating the partnership between our school and our PTA—a partnership I believe in so much,” said Schroerlucke in a press release. “We have seen how student achievement and the development of positive personal characteristics thrive when there is mutual commitment and trust between faculty, students and parents. We will continue to raise the bar for additional student achievement next year, too.”

“We couldn’t be more pleased that the only middle school principal recognized by the PTA in the state of Georgia is our very own Joy Schroerlucke,” said Holcomb Bridge Middle School PTA Co-president, Deb Dreesman.  “We know the positive impact that Joy has made to this school and our district in the last seven years—and now we are proud that everyone else knows it, too!”

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Schroerlucke was also recently named the 2013-2014 Georgia Northeast Learning Community Principal of the Year and was a finalist for the designation in Fulton, according to the press release from the Holcomb Bridge Middle PTA. She came to Holcomb Bridge Middle School in 2006 and has helped lead the school to numerous distinctions, including the designation of Georgia National Lighthouse School to Watch, a Georgia School of Excellence and a Distinguished Title I School. 

Before coming to Holcomb Bridge, Schroerlucke spent 15 years as a middle school teacher, and 18 years as an assistant principal at North Springs, Roswell, Centennial and Chattahoochee High Schools.


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