{"id":6971,"date":"2019-05-05T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=6971"},"modified":"2019-05-05T22:48:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T02:48:17","slug":"hammond-principal-follows-first-lady-in-honor-for-her-dedication-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/hammond-principal-follows-first-lady-in-honor-for-her-dedication-to-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammond Principal Follows First Lady in Honor for Her Dedication to All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The principal of Francis C. Hammond Middle School followed in the steps of the former First Lady of Virginia when she became the 2019 winner of the Milliken Award from Communities in Schools this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pierrette Peters was honored for her \u201ctireless leadership\u201d and her work to build a culture of shared responsibility and stability for a high-needs population. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communities in Schools founder Bill Milliken stopped by the school to announce the award in person. Previous recipients include Dorothy McAuliffe, former First Lady of Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13171 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/pierrette_award-3-800x551.jpg\" alt=\"Pierrette Peters stands with her award surrounded by friends and colleagues\" width=\"635\" height=\"437\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This is really quite an honor, given I don\u2019t share the same celebrity status as the First Lady, but this is an acknowledgement of the work that my staff and I have been collaborating on at Hammond and I\u2019m delighted to see our work recognized in this way,\u201d said Peters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Principal Peters was honored at a dinner attended by Dorothy McAuliffe and her husband, former Governor Terry McAuliffe on Thursday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Communities in Schools (CIS) Milliken Award, named for CIS founder Bill Milliken and his wife Jean Milliken, recognizes individuals who embody the quality of persistence \u2014 the common denominator in making a positive difference in the lives of the most vulnerable across our community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;As principal of Francis C. Hammond Middle School, Ms. Peters\u2019 tireless leadership over the past four years has brought much-needed stability and built a culture of shared responsibility to serve a high need student population at Hammond. This is why she is being honored,\u201d Bill Milliken said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Pierrette Peters followed in the steps of the former First Lady of Virginia when she became the 2019 winner of the Milliken Award from Communities in Schools this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kudos-to-staff"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 12:31:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7002,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions\/7002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}