Saturday, November 19, 2005
The Taft staff paid for Schubert's family to attend the awards ceremony.
YOUNGSTOWN -- The principal of Youngstown's Taft Elementary School is the recipient of the Ohio School Counselor Association's 2005-06 Administrator's Award.
Michael J. Schubert received the honor in a ceremony in Columbus earlier this month. It was presented in recognition of his contribution to the growth and understanding of school counseling.
Schubert, who has been principal at Taft since 2002, never worked as a school counselor but said his work on a master of education degree in curriculum and instruction at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., in 1998 included a focus on that area of education.
He said he has applied what he learned there to his work in Youngstown.
Employees at Taft recognized his state honor on National Boss Day and picked up the tab to send his entire family to the awards ceremony in Columbus.
Schubert said the state association's honor goes beyond his efforts. He said the award recognizes and honors something special Youngstown schools are doing.
Background
Schubert earned a bachelor's degree in education with a minor in music at Edinboro (Pa.) University of Pennsylvania in 1988 and taught school in both South and North Carolina before coming to Ohio in 1999 to take a position as director of curriculum and instruction and elementary principal in Southeast Local Schools in Ravenna.
In addition to his work as Taft's principal, he is an adjunct professor at Ashland University. He also has served as a trainer in the Summer Institute for Reading Intervention for the Portage County Education Service Center, training teachers in reading intervention strategies.