nspra winner

PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. -- Pulaski County Special School District is one of several award recipients to receive national recognition for district and school communication efforts in the 2024 National School Communication Awards contest.

Executive Director of Communication, Jessica Duff, submitted one entry this year for the “video series” category under the Publications and Digital Media Excellence awards program. This award program recognizes outstanding tactical materials such as publications, newsletters, videos, podcasts, websites, social media and more. The submission included a https://www.youtube.com/playlist?series of videos about the Academies of Central Arkansas and the corresponding pathways at Sylvan Hills High and Maumelle High schools.

“We are honored to be recognized for the hard work that our communication team dedicates to every project we work on,” said Duff. “This particular submission means a little bit more because it involved so much collaboration with our students at Maumelle and Sylvan Hills.”

NSPRA received more than 2,200 entries to this year’s School Communication Awards program. The contest, which includes three award programs, is held in conjunction with the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA) annual conference.

Entries submitted in the contest must cover work, projects, etc. that took place or were distributed between March 2023 - March 2024. Members of the District’s communications department will receive recognition for these achievements at the annual NSPRA conference July 14 - 17, 2024 in Seattle, Washington.