Superintendent Receives Administrator of the Year Award 

Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. Charles Lindsey was recognized in Nashville Friday as the Tennessee Art Education Association presented him with the TAEA Administrator of the Year Award for 2002.

This award is given annually to an outstanding administrator who has exhibited solid support of visual art specialists and art programs in the state.

Dr. Fred Patterson, Knox County Schools art supervisor, nominated Lindsey for the award based on his support of the elementary art initiative in Knox County. Lindsey has been instrumental in bringing art to elementary schools in the county. Under his direction Knox County Schools have added 15 art teachers and developed a plan, which will allow every elementary school in the county to have art instruction for at least half the school year.

“I am honored by this recognition,” said Lindsey. “This is something that the school board and I have been working on for about two years. The board has been very supportive, and we have taken some baby steps toward our goal of 30 elementary art teachers. I am really pleased with what we have accomplished, but we still have a way to go to reach our goal.”

The World Class School System template that Lindsey and a task force of community leaders recently presented to the Knox County Board of Education calls for expanded art programs at the elementary level.

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