Winches receives curriculum leader award

Homewood City Schools’ Dr. Betty Winches has been selected as the 2013 Outstanding Curriculum Leader as selected by the Alabama Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (AASCD). 

AASCD, an affiliate association of the Council for Leaders in Alabama Schools (CLAS), appointed a committee to review nominations for outstanding contributions to curriculum development, advancement or implementation. 

Winches began her career in Homewood as a seventh-grade language arts teacher in 1975 after serving previously in Birmingham City and Huntsville City Schools. Since 1998, she has served HCS as assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction.  

 “Dr. Winches is the ‘keeper of the vision’ for all curricular and instructional initiatives in the school district,” Superintendent Dr. Bill Cleveland said. “She is sought after as a mentor, and she uses her knowledge and experience to encourage even greater skills in our experienced teaching staff and in our new teachers.” 

 For more than 12 years, Patti Atkinson has worked with Winches as a current HCS Board member, former elementary PTO president and HCS Foundation member.  

 “Dr. Winches’ understanding of curriculum and its appropriate application to the classroom has tremendously benefited Homewood’s schools,” Atkinson said.  “It is not simply that she has a large number of years in the business, but that she is constantly upgrading her knowledge and passing on that knowledge to other administrators and educators, to the benefit of all.” 

-Submitted by Homewood City Schools