Beloved St. Michael-Albertville Principal Recognized as One of State's Best

Jennifer Kelley, head of St. Michael-Albertville Middle School East, has been named Met Life/NASSP Principal of the Year for Minnesota. And for those that know her, it's easy to see why.

To understand Jennifer Kelly's dedication to her students, one only has to look at the "event" she made for her WEB (Where Everyone Belongs) students' annual party.  To kill some time between stops on an evening full of activity, she invited more than two dozen eighth-graders to her home, and survived.  But the proof is also in her numbers at St. Michael-Albertville Middle School East. More than 85 percent of students here are involved in some sort of activitiy. Every actitity offered has 100 percent participation. More than 87 percent of all students are proficient or exceeding proficiency on state standardized exams. And the school's trimester honor roll is often a mile long.  For all of those reasons, and more, Kelly was recently named …

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