Rocky Creek Elementary Principal Receives Administrator of the Year Award

Lynn C. Boyleston, Rocky Creek Elementary principal, received the Joseph M. Bedenbaugh Administrator of the Year Award on May 21 at a Lexington County School District One Board of Trustees meeting.

The award, given annually by the Lexington One Educational Foundation, honors an administrator who exhibits outstanding leadership skills and compassion toward students, works well with staff, students and parents, and who considers the educational development of students a primary goal.

During her 37-year career, Boyleston has served as an elementary school teacher, assistant principal, and principal. Before joining Lexington One as a fourth-grade teacher at Lexington Elementary in 1989 she taught in Barnwell School District 29 and Anderson School District One. Boyleston was promoted to assistant principal at Lexington Elementary in 1992 and to principal of Lake Murray Elementary in 2002. In 2010, she moved to Rocky Creek Elementary as principal.

Boyleston holds a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education and a Master of Education in elementary education from Clemson University. She has elementary education, special education, middle school language arts and social studies and elementary administration and supervision certifications. She is a member of the South Carolina Association of School Administrators, State Council of the International Reading Association and Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

The Joseph M. Bedenbaugh Award was named for a Lexington One administrator who retired in 1982 after 36 years of service and is the last surviving building administrator from the original staff when Lexington One was consolidated in 1952.

Submitted by Lexington One.