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For Immediate Release
Voyager Honors Stewart County, Georgia
Educators with Voyager Founder's Award
Dallas, December 19, 2006− On November 10, 2006, Voyager Expanded Learning® honored educators from Stewart County, Georgia, with the Voyager Founder's Award at the Georgia and National Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) Annual Conference in Savannah for making a profound difference in the lives of students in their district. Recipients of the award included Henry Moylan, superintendent; Floyd Fort, director of curriculum; Cathy Taylor, reading coach and Joann Chester, Stewart County Elementary principal.
The Founder's Award is given to educators who, through the implementation of Voyager programs in their districts, demonstrate heroism in winning the battle to achieve unprecedented, measurable gains in moving low-performing students and schools to standard, and substantially closing the achievement gap.
Voyager representatives Joe Lynch, national sales manager-East and Richard Baxter, regional director presented Stewart County with the award. As part of the award Stewart County received a donation of $2000 for its district foundation.
"As Joe read to the audience the data and statistics of our little school, tears of pride gathered in my eyes," says Taylor. "Our partnership with Voyager through the use of the Universal Literacy System and Voyager Passport™ has made the difference between working harder and working smarter," she says.
Stewart County Public Schools implement the Voyager Universal Literacy System® in kindergarten through third grade and have been using the program for four years. At the end of the 2005-2006 school year, 98 percent of kindergarten students, 94 percent of first-grade students, 98 percent of second-grade students and 88 percent of third-grade students were reading on-track.
The Founder's Award is given in honor of Voyager co-founder and former vice-chairman Admiral Thomas B. Hayward, U.S. Navy (ret.). One of the nation's true heroes and patriots, Admiral Hayward was the driving force behind Voyager's growth as a mission-driven company dedicated to making a difference in reading for millions of children. Admiral Hayward remains the guardian of Voyager's commitment to quality educational programs and services that deliver unprecedented results for historically low-performing students, schools, and districts. It is in his honor and in recognition of his efforts that the Voyager Founder's Award is presented to educators responsible for initiating change and increasing student achievement.
About Voyager Expanded Learning
Voyager Expanded Learning provides core, intervention and supplemental reading programs, as well as math intervention and ongoing professional development programs for school districts throughout the United States. Founded in 1994, Voyager has delivered extended-time reading and basic skills intervention programs as well as large-scale reading programs to more than 900 school districts in cities such as Dallas, Phoenix, New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, resulting in dramatically improved student performance. Voyager Expanded Learning, Inc. is part of ProQuest Education, a business segment of ProQuest Company, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.voyagerlearning.com or call 1-888-399-1995.
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