Distinctions
- 2022 SAANYS Leadership and Support Award
- 2019 Teacher Leader Certificate of Advanced Studies program approval by NYS Board of Regents for Buffalo State (co-author)
- 2018 NYS Council on Leadership and Student Activities Administrator of the Year
- 2017 WNY Educational Service Council Excellence in Education Award
- 2016-2019 Awarded Federal Physical Education Program Grant $1,102,587.
- 2013-14 Awarded NYSED Strengthening Teachers and Leaders Effectiveness-2 Grant
- 2014-15 Awarded NYSED Strengthening Teachers and Leaders Effectiveness-D Grant
- 2008 National Council of Teachers for English National Intellectual Freedom Award
- 2007 Business First Who’s Who in Education
- 2004-05 and 2005-06 Recognized by NYS Education Department as High Performing Gap Closing School
- 2005 NYS Civic Star Award for Tonawanda
- 2003 Recommended for People to People Ambassador Program
- 1996 Wrote and received Teacher Center Grant for Alden High School
- 1985 Niagara Falls Small Business Person of the Year
- Graduated with Distinction, Russell Sage College, M.S.E.
- Kappa Delta Phi Honor Society
- Graduated Magna cum Laude from SUNY Cortland
- Selected by SUNY Cortland to study abroad in Germany, Spring Semester 1976
- New York State PTSA Scholarship for Continued Graduate Studies
- DAR Good Citizen Award: Akron High School