U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced the 2020 recipients of the Terrel H. Bell Award for Outstanding School Leadership. Nine principals from the 2020 cohort of National Blue Ribbon Schools are joined this year by a special Lifetime Leadership awardee. They will be honored during the National Blue Ribbon Schools virtual awards ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. Read about each awardee below.
2020 Terrel H. Bell Awardees
Shavon Jackson Crawford Elementary School Russellville, AR
Carmen Vargas-Guevara
South Street School
Danbury, CT
Carol Leveillee Frederick Douglass Elementary School Seaford, DE
Mayra A. Cruz
Oyster-Adams Bilingual School Washington, DC
Michael H.
Robinson
Martha Ellen Stilwell School of the Arts
Jonesboro, GA
Maryann Hayslip
Saint Aloysius School
Pewee Valley, KY
John Ross
Wright, Jr.
West Side Elementary School Elizabethton, TN
Corrine Morris Saenz
Reilly Elementary School
Austin, TX
Michelle M. Fox
Ridgecrest Elementary School East Puyallup, WA
