Our Unsung Hero – Ginger Pollock!
Site coordinators are at the heart of the Communities In Schools model. They build essential relationships with students, teachers, and principals, and the break down barriers to learning every day. This year, six of these dedicated staff members who devote their lives to helping kids overcome challenges so that they can achieve their full potential in school and in life were selected to receive the Communities In Schools’ Unsung Heroes Award.
This award, first presented to site coordinators at a Communities In Schools national conference in 2007, celebrates members of the national network who embody the core values of the organization and demonstrate excellence in their jobs while implementing the Communities In Schools model.
We are thrilled that Kansas’ very own Ginger Pollock, of CIS of Wichita/Sedgwick County, has been selected to receive one of six Communities In Schools Unsung Heroes Awards. Site coordinators like Ginger who personally connect with the kids every day, and prove that it is indeed people, and their unique gift of building life-giving relationships with kids, that transform lives.
Members of our national staff and board of directors were moved by the persistence and dedication with which Ginger faces the challenges of her job. Ginger’s award will be presented to her at a celebratory event held this fall in the Washington D.C. area.
From community partnerships to resource development to managing her CIS site, Ginger exemplifies the core principles of CIS and is all that a site coordinator should be. A five-year CIS veteran and a member of the second cohort for site coordinator certification, Ginger is a dedicated and loyal employee with an excellent work ethic.
In seeking feedback from the administrative team, the descriptors flowed: a creative self-starter, an admired leader, always goes above and beyond. “Coming to Hamilton Middle School is not just a job for Ginger; it is her lifestyle, her grounding, her duty, her belief in building young adolescents to become successful members of our community,” said Amy Hungria, Hamilton Middle School Principal.
Congratulations, Ginger!
