Salute Trailblazer Award

Previous TLN Salute districts are encouraged to review the criteria for the TLN Trailblazer, designed to recognize new accomplishments of past honorees. Each of the past TLN Salute Districts were accomplishing amazing things at the time they were honored, but districts can only be “Saluted” once. Therefore, every few years NSBA recognizes a TLN member with the Trailblazer Award. This recognition is reserved for previous Salute Districts that have gone far beyond their first recognition. It was first given in 2002 to the Henrico County Public Schools in Richmond, Virginia, to acknowledge their leadership role in establishing the largest district laptop program in the nation. In 2004, the Trailblazer honor went to Community Consolidated School District #15 in Palatine, Illinois, recognizing its special accomplishment as a Malcolm Baldrige Award winner.  Then in 2006 Calcasieu Parish Public Schools were recognized as a Trailblazer recipient as a result of the comprehensive technology planning that allowed the district to serve not only students and faculty, but their community at a time of crisis after Hurricane Rita. Township High School District 214, IL was the last district to be recognized as Trailblazer in 2010. 

Not sure if your district has been as honored as a TLN Salute District? The full list of Salute Distrcits can be found here.  If you feel your district has experienced an extraordinary accomplishment since your initial recognition as a TLN Salute district, please describe the new initiative in an e-mail to Ann Flynn.