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Penn celebrates 2025 Teacher Signing Day
Penn High School proudly recognized members of the Class of 2025 who have committed to careers in education—an inspiring step toward shaping future classrooms. Click here to see the full photo gallery posted below. The Teacher Signing Day, similar to a College Signing Day for student-athletes, was held in the Studio Theater on Tuesday, May 13. Students wore shirts representing their college of choice and ...

Prairie Vista’s Rose Montgomery Named P-H-M’s 2025 Elementary Teacher of the Year
Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation is proud to announce that Rose Montgomery, a first grade teacher at Prairie Vista Elementary, has been named the district’s 2025 Elementary Teacher of the Year. The announcement was made during a surprise classroom visit from Superintendent Dr. Jerry Thacker on Wednesday, May 7, as part of the district’s celebration of National Teacher Appreciation Week. Click to watch the video below. Making ...

Penn Educational Assistant named 2025 Certified Employee of the Year
Penn High School Educational Assistant Whitney Hall received a well-deserved honor this morning when Superintendent Dr. Jerry Thacker announced that she has been named the 2025 Classified Employee of the Year for Penn-Harris-Madison. Dr. Thacker, PHM and Penn Administrators, a few of Whitney’s co-workers, and of course students were all in the classroom waiting to surprise Whitney when she returned after a “meeting.” She was ...

Teacher Appreciation Week Kicks Off with Naming 2025 Secondary Teacher of the Year
To mark the start of National Teacher Appreciation Week, Penn-Harris-Madison Superintendent Dr. Jerry Thacker is celebrating the district’s most outstanding educators—surprising them with the news that they have been selected as P-H-M’s 2025 Elementary and Secondary Teachers of the Year. Click to watch the video below of Dr. Thacker surprising Schmucker Middle School 8th grade Math teacher L.A. (Kriss) High announcing he's been named P-H-M ...

Unveiling of Penn’s Renamed EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating Systems) – Tania Bengtsson Center for Performing Arts
Right before Penn's Spring Band Concert on Thursday, May 1, 2025 was a perfect time to unveil the sign for the newly renamed EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating Systems) – Tania Bengtsson Center for Performing Arts (Bengtsson CPA for short). P-H-M parent and Penn Band parent Tania Bengtsson donated $50,000 to P-H-M Education Foundation’s Naming Rights Campaign to have Penn’s CPA renamed after her business EOS (Entrepreneurial ...