Catholic board awarded for communications
The Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board has earned three national awards for excellence in school board communications.
The awards were received at the Canadian Association of Communicators in Education Bravo Awards held in Toronto on Oct 29. The person that received them was the board’s communication manager, Galen Eagle.
The Bravo Awards aim to recognize and honour outstanding work in all areas of school public relations, whether that be communication, marketing, or engagement. Bravo awards of Excellence, Distinction, and Merit are presented annually at the CACE conference.
Eagle received a Bravo award of Excellence for a campaign video that highlighted the work first graders did to save an endangered species of bat. The video garnered more than 90,000 views on Facebook, and helped spearhead an initiative to build and install bat sanctuaries in the Durham region.
Eagle also received two more Bravo awards for distinction. One was for the board’s Put Your Director To Work fundraised for United Way. The other was for a video project called “Voices That Listen,” which showcased the board’s 2017 Indigenous education student leadership retreat.
“I feel grateful for my role at PVNC. I get to work with creative, passionate colleagues, educators and students and find new and engaging ways to tell our stories,” Eagle stated in a press release. “Being recognized for these projects by my peers in school communication from across Canada is extremely rewarding.”