GEORGETOWN – Curt Bunting, principal at Sussex Technical High School, will carry the banner for the First State.
The Delaware Association of School Administrators (DASA) last week announced that Mr. Bunting, 39, has been chosen as Delaware’s nominee for the National Principal of the Year for 2010.
This prestigious award is sponsored by MetLife and the National Association of Secondary School Principals in association with the U.S. Department of Education.
This program annually recognizes outstanding school leaders who have succeeded in providing high-quality learning opportunities for students.
“I am very humbled to win this award because of all the great things principals throughout the state are doing,” said Mr. Bunting. “They are in trenches every day working hard to increase the overall success, whether it is through climate or focusing on teaching and learning and in the meantime maintaining the initiatives of the state, feeling the pressures of No Child Left Behind and managing the overall operation.”
Mr. Bunting has been principal of Sussex Technical High School since 2005.
“I am also very blessed to have a great administrative team with support around me, a great staff and also we can’t forget our students – we also have great students,” said Mr. Bunting.
A Selbyville native, Mr. Bunting was an associate principal at Seaford High School for three years before coming to Sussex Tech.
“I had a lot of great mentors there that really started off my administrative career,” he said. “I am very thankful for the mentors that I had there, that helped prepare me for the principal ship role.”
Mr. Bunting said he was encouraged by the Sussex Tech district office to apply for this award. “It was a pretty lengthy process,” he said.
In June he’’’ be honored at DASA and in October in Washington, D.C. at a function sponsored by Met Life.
Finalists for national honors are to be announced in August and those finalists will be recognized in March at a national convention in Phoenix, Ariz.
Mr. Bunting, who began his education career as a special education teacher in 1993, has a master’s degree from the U.S. Sports Academy in Alabama and a school administration certificate through Wilmington University and the University of Delaware. He is presently working on his doctorate through Wilmington University.
Mr. Bunting, his wife and three children reside in Delmar.
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