MoASBO Pinnacle Award Recipient

The Pinnacle Awards celebrate the work of outstanding individuals whose original solutions maximize resources and enhance student achievement.

Congratulations to the 2024 Pinnacle Award recipient, Mary Jo Gruber!

Project Title: Utilizing the Purchasing Process to Leverage a District's Ability to Provide Extended Learning Opportunities to Students and Exposure to Various Focuses and Careers (2022) Learning

Project Description: Pattonville School District uses a purchasing process to leverage the district’s ability to provide extended-learning opportunities to students and expose them to a variety of careers. Chief financial officer/operating officer Mary Jo Gruber explains that the district uses value-added services, which are additional offerings provided by businesses that go beyond their core product or service offerings, to provide extended learning opportunities for students. “For example,” Gruber says, “construction companies allow students to job shadow, accounting firms perform onsite visits to a classroom to connect the current curriculum to real-life accounting, or engineering firms sponsor robotics leagues or scholarships for AI events.”

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ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

• School district teams can submit their solutions for the Pinnacle Award.  
• Applicants must be current members of ASBO International. Membership must remain current through the ASBO International Annual Conference & Expo. 
• The submitted project must have been developed and implemented after May 2021. 
• Current ASBO International Board of Directors members are not eligible to apply.