Shockney and Meinecke Receive Outstanding Carroll County School Administrator Awards

Nicholas Shockney, principal at Mechanicsville Elementary School, and Teresa Meinecke, assistant principal at Freedom Elementary School, have been named recipients of the Rita Board Dowd Award for Outstanding Carroll County School Administrators. 

This award is given annually to two school administrators – one principal and one assistant principal (K-12) – awarded independently. The goal of the award is to recognize exceptional educational leadership in serving Carroll County Public Schools and its students, according to a news release. 

Nicholas Shockney has 13 years in the field of education. He began his career as a first grade teacher in Anne Arundel County and came to Carroll County in 2002, where he was a first and fourth grade teacher at Piney Ridge Elementary School. He served as assistant principal at the Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in Baltimore, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He became assistant principal of Winfield Elementary School in 2007 and has been principal at Mechanicsville since 2008. 

Teresa Meinecke has spent all of her 33 years in the field of education in Carroll County Public Schools. She has been the assistant principal at Freedom Elementary School since 2010. Prior to that, she was assistant principal at Charles Carroll and Winfield Elementary Schools and an elementary teacher. She is a former Carroll County Teacher of the Year.

The Rita Board Dowd Award for Outstanding Carroll County School Administrators was created in memory of Rita Board Dowd, who passed away in May 2009. Dowd taught biology and science at North Carroll High School from 1997 to 2002. She was a member of the faculty that opened Winters Mill High School in 2002 and taught biology until her appointment as assistant principal in 2006.

This award was presented during the Board of Education’s employee recognition ceremony on Thursday, April 25, 2013.

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Information in this post taken from a Carroll County Public Schools news release.