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ENMS assistant principal honored
10/20/2011
Author: Dennis Nartker
Published by: The News Sun
East Noble Middle School assistant principal and athletic director Bryan Emmert is the 2011 Assistant Principal of the Year for District 3 of the Indiana Association of School Principals.
"It's humbling and unexpected," he said Tuesday.
Emmert was selected by his peers, with one principal honored from each of the state's 12 districts. District 3 is made up of Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Wabash, Wells and Whitley counties.
Emmert now is eligible for the 2011 Indiana Assistant Principal of the Year Award. He will be honored at a recognition ceremony during a Nov. 20 luncheon at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, when the 2011 Assistant Principal of the Year will be announced.
A Crawfordsville native, Emmert is in his second year at East Noble Middle School. He previously spent nine years as assistant principal at Rome City Elementary School, before serving for about seven months as the school district's interim transportation director, after the previous director resigned three months into the school year.
"Bryan stepped in, raised the bar on expectations, better organized the department and implemented new processes for improved effectiveness and efficiency," said East Noble superintendent Ann Linson. "All of this created a very smooth transition for the new director."
East Noble Middle School principal Travis Heavin said Emmert is the school's attendance officer and handles student discipline.
"He understands that students are people and treats them with respect while assigning them an appropriate consequence," Heavin said.
As athletic director, Emmert plans more than 100 school events.
"Bryan attends almost all the events. He does not attend because he has to, but because he wants to," Heavin said.
Before coming to East Noble, Emmert taught art at Chauncey Rose Middle School in the Vigo County School Corp. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Indiana State University.
Asked why he chose a career in education, Emmert said he had good mentors and inspirational teachers at North Montgomery High School.
He resides in Columbia City with his wife and two children. Back to Top