Excerpts taken from Henrico Schools Media Relations press release.
Amanda Drinnon,reading specialist at the ACE Center at Hermitage, was awarded a 2025 REB Award for Teaching Excellence and will receive a $15,000 grant to continue her love of learning and pursue cutting-edge study in her field.
"I'm just so happy that I get to do all of these incredible things and bring them back to my school," Drinnon said. "I'm so proud of the ACE Center at Hermitage, and I want to show off our school and all of the accolades that we get here. "The ACE Center at Hermitage has a diverse population of students, and I want to make them feel included in our programs. I want to experience various cultures, and we're going to come back here and embrace the cultures we have here at our school. I'm so honored to be able to do that and to be able to share them with my colleagues. We have our vet science program, and I'm going to be able to talk about an African safari with them. I'm just so excited."
