Cariens wins Joseph M. Bedenbaugh Administrator of the Year Award
May 26, 2014
LEXINGTON, SC – Sherry P. Cariens, Oak Grove Elementary principal, received the Joseph M. Bedenbaugh Administrator of the Year Award on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at the Lexington County School District One Board of Trustees meeting.
The award, given annually by the Lexington One Educational Foundation, honors an administrator who exhibits outstanding leadership skills and compassion toward students, works well with staff, students and parents, and who considers the educational development of students a primary goal.
During her 40-year career, Cariens has served as a teacher, assistant principal and principal. Before joining Lexington One as a teacher at Oak Grove Elementary in 1976 she taught in Gaston County, North Carolina. Cariens was promoted to assistant principal at Lexington Middle in 1981 and to principal of Lexington Intermediate in 2006. In 2010, she moved to Oak Grove Elementary as principal.
Cariens holds a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Appalachian State University, and a Master of Education degree and an Educational Specialist Degree from the University of South Carolina. She has elementary administration and supervision, secondary social studies and mathematics and superintendent certifications.
She is a member of the South Carolina Association of School Administrators, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and the Palmetto State Teachers Association.
The Joseph M. Bedenbaugh Award was named for a Lexington One administrator who retired in 1982 after 36 years of service and is the last surviving building administrator from the original staff when Lexington One was consolidated in 1952.
Joseph M. Bedenbaugh presents the 2014 Joseph M. Bedenbaugh Administrator of the Year Award to Oak Grove Elementary Principal Sherry Cariens.
