An area teacher has received an award.
A news release says at the Marketing and Cooperative Education Association (MCEA) meeting held on July 24 in Springfield, Saline County Career Center Marketing instructor Kerry Henley was awarded the Innovations in Marketing Education Award.
The purpose of the award is to recognize marketing educators for outstanding innovative contributions to a marketing education instructional program. Criteria for the award are to individuals for innovation in marketing-education programming in the preceding two years. The individual must have played a significant role in the creation and implementation of the innovation. The applicant was rated on his or her personal involvement in the creation and implementation of the innovation; the uniqueness of ideas and the objectives of the program; the accomplishment of the objectives; the implications for future outcomes; and the ease of implementation in other marketing education programs. The nominee must be a member of MCEA, MoACTE and ACTE.
During the presentation of the award, Shelli Ray, past MCEA President, noted that Henley is a true marketing innovator. Since joining the Saline County Career Center as the Marketing instructor and DECA Advisor in 2016, she has taken a two-year marketing program and expanded it even further by starting a four-year marketing program and creating traditions that leave a legacy for future chapter members such as establishing a lettering system, completing the Thrive campaigns, Advocacy Campaign, and starting an awards wall. She has been recognized on the International level as well for her role as a DECA Advisor.
Ray also noted the amount of community involvement the SCCC DECA chapter participates in has been inspiring to other chapters. Henley’s philosophy has been to “pay it forward” and the goal of the chapter is to try to find and fill a need. Some past examples since she has been at the Career Center include helping veterans, promoting reading, collecting food for the hungry and various other community service projects.
Pictured are Saline County Career Center Marketing Instructor Kerry Henley (left) and past MCEA President Shelli Ray. (Photo provided by the Salien County Career Center.