Dallas Strawn, senior instructor, College of Education, received the Colorado Association of Superintendents and Senior Administrators Colbert Cushing Award July 26.
The award recognizes outstanding professional contributions to education on a national level, to the Colorado Association of Superintendents and Senior Administrators or Colorado Association of School Executives, or to a school district. Cushing was the first executive director of the Colorado Association of School Executives.
Strawn served in the public school system for 43 years as a high school educator, alternative school director, assistant high school principal, high school principal, curriculum director, assistant superintendent, and superintendent. In addition to teaching courses in the Leadership, Research and Foundations program at UCCS, he works as a consultant in the area of stress management and is president of Educational Leadership Search Associates, Inc. which assists school districts in hiring superintendents.
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