{"id":107201,"date":"2021-06-30T19:18:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107201"},"modified":"2021-06-30T19:18:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T23:18:21","slug":"bethlehem-area-school-district-earns-six-state-awards-for-video-social-media-and-covid-19-crisis-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107201","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Area School District Earns Six State Awards for Video, Social Media, and COVID-19 Crisis Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BETHLEHEM, PA, June 2021 <\/strong>&#8211; The Bethlehem Area School District won six awards in the 2021 Pennsylvania School Public Relations Association (<a href=\"https:\/\/penspra.com\/\"><u>PenSPRA<\/u><\/a>) \u201cExcellence in Education Communication\u201d contest, including two awards for its COVID-19 \/ Crisis Management Response, and an award for Superintendent Dr. Joseph J. Roy\u2019s Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>The PenSPRA Awards represent an annual Excellence In Education Communications Contest. Entries are accepted in a number of categories to reflect the scope of work often undertaken by communications professionals throughout the state of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic schools depend on the support of their community members,\u201d said Bethlehem Area School District Superintendent, Dr. Joseph J. Roy. \u201cIn turn, the district takes seriously its responsibility to inform the community of our many accomplishments. We are proud that our communications efforts have been recognized with these awards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bethlehem Area School District earned awards in the following categories and levels with links to the original projects included.<\/p>\n<h1>Writing<\/h1>\n<p><em>Award of Merit<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Air Products Salute to Diversity Awards: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3csYpz0\"><strong>https:\/\/bit.ly\/3csYpz0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>COVID-19 and\/or Crisis Management Category Winners<\/h1>\n<p><em>Award of Honor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>COVID-19 Update Reopening Plan: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3xMoz7M\"><strong>https:\/\/bit.ly\/3xMoz7M<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Award of Merit<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>COVID-19 Case Dashboard: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basdschools.org\/covid19dashboard\"><strong>https:\/\/www.basdschools.org\/covid19dashboard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Videos<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Award of Honor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The S.T.E.P.S Program: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/35LxquB\"><strong>https:\/\/bit.ly\/35LxquB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Award of Merit<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bethlehem Area School District Employee of the Month: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3d7qdZN\"><strong>https:\/\/bit.ly\/3d7qdZN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Social Media<\/h1>\n<p><em>Award of Merit<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Superintendent Dr. Joseph J. Roy\u2019s Twitter Account: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/basdsupt\"><strong>https:\/\/twitter.com\/basdsupt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The full list of winners can be found at: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/penspra.com\/contest-winners\/\"><em><u>https:\/\/penspra.com\/contest-winners\/<\/u><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About the Bethlehem Area School District<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bethlehem Area School District is the 6<sup>th<\/sup> largest school district in Pennsylvania serving nearly 14,000 culturally and economically diverse students in 22 community-based schools. The district serves five municipalities: City of Bethlehem, Bethlehem Township, Hanover Township, Freemansburg, and Fountain Hill. The district enjoys numerous community partnerships with universities, businesses, and arts providers that extend the schools\u2019 rich curricular and co-curricular offerings.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About The Pennsylvania School Public Relations Association (PenSPRA) <\/em><\/strong>Chartered in 1969, PenSPRA is an organization of school public relations professionals whose goal is to improve educational communication and support student achievement through systematic, proactive, and responsible public relations programs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInformation provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBarbara Clymer<br \/>\nAssistant to the Superintendent for Communications<br \/>\nBethlehem Area School District<br \/>\n1516 Sycamore Street<br \/>\nBethlehem, PA 18017<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BETHLEHEM, PA, June 2021 &#8211; The Bethlehem Area School District won six awards in the 2021 Pennsylvania School Public Relations Association (PenSPRA) \u201cExcellence in Education Communication\u201d contest, including two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bethlehem Area School District Earns Six State Awards for Video, Social Media, and COVID-19 Crisis Management<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5717,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bethlehem","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/pnspra.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}