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| Written by Aaron Cedeño | |||
| Wednesday, 03 February 2010 08:00 | |||
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For Brian Biermann, there’s an easy way to tell if the Student of the Month award is achieving its desired goal.
 All he has to do is listen to his students at the end of every month, when the excitement and interest is readily apparent. “How do I get to be Student of the Month?” they ask him, time and time again. And Biermann’s reply is always the same. “I tell them ‘If you want to know how to be the Student of the Month, just listen to what I read,’” said Biermann, Louisburg Middle School principal. As he stood on stage Friday and the entire school assembled in the auditorium before him, there was an air of theatricality about the event. By design, the winners are kept in the dark until the moment before they are called on stage, though their parents and family members are notified in advance. One by one, Biermann called their names, a boy and a girl from each of the grade levels, to the excited cheers of their classmates. The staff of each grade makes the selection, Biermann explained, along with which they submit a glowing explanation of why each student deserves the honor. Those descriptions are then printed on individual certificates and awarded to the students. It’s within those certificates, he said, that the secret to becoming Student of the Month can be found. As the students are called on stage, Biermann reads each one. The award is really unique, he noted, because it doesn’t just honor the students with perfect grades. It’s about being a well-rounded student and individual. “It’s the student who’s maybe just average academically, but maybe above average in the other traits,” Biermann said. Mary Kate Roy, a seventh-grader and two-time Student of the Month, agreed with her principal’s take. “It doesn’t matter what your grades are,” she said. “It’s mostly just affected by your overall personality.” The February 2010 Students of the Month are sixth-graders Hannah Lewis and Parker Cates, seventh-graders Clay Davis and Mary Kate Roy, and eighth-graders Jacob Elbrader and Rachel Wittry.
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