Jenell Bear

NEW TOWN — Jenell Bear, principal of Edwin Loe Elementary School in New Town, has been named as one of 43 exemplary elementary and middle-level principals from across the nation to receive the National Distinguished Principal award from the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

Since 1984, the NDP program has recognized public and private school principals who make superior contributions to their schools and communities and has given them the opportunity to share best practices with each other. NAESP state affiliates selected these 43 principal honorees, who join 2,364 principals before them who have also been recognized as NAESP NDPs.

The pre-K-8 principals traveled to the nation’s capital from Oct. 23-24, to participate in two days of events that culminated

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