1006 Communy Avenue - P.O. Box 250 - Pascagoula, MS - 39568-0250
Phone: (228) 938-6495 - Fax (228) 938-6528

Named Superintendent of the Pascagoula School District August 1, 2005

TEACH Mississippi - Trial PSA (.WMV file - 3.5 MB)
by Wayne V. Rodolfich

Education:

• St. Martin High School class of 1985
• Associate of Arts - Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (1988)
• Bachelor of Science in Education - Delta State University (1991)
• Master of Education - Delta State University (1992)
• Master of Education Administration & Supervision - Delta State University (1993)

Accomplishments:

• National Dropout Prevention Network's Crystal Star Award for Excellence in Dropout Recovery, Intervention, and Prevention at the
  National Dropout Prevention Conference in San Antonio, Texas. October 2009.
  
• Model Program: National Dropout Prevention Center Network 2009
  
• Two National School Public Relations Association Awards of Excellence for Destination Graduation! 2008 and 2009
  
• Two Southern Public Relations Federation Awards of Excellence for Destination Graduation! 2008 and 2009
  
• Two Mississippi School Public Relations Golden Medallion awards - the highest award in the state given by MSPRA 2008 and 2009
  
• PHS and GHS Chosen as Two of America's Best High Schools
  
  U.S. News and World Report has completed a survey of America's schools, and both high schools in our district appear at the top in Mississippi.
• Pascagoula School District's "Destination Graduation!" Campaign captures Golden Medallion Award
  The Pascagoula School District captured the state's top award in the Mississippi School Public Relations Association's 2008 Awards of Excellence program.
  
• Supt. Wayne Rodolfich presented Mrs. Powell with a Destination Graduation/Teach Mississippi t-shirt and a notebook filled with information on how the Pascagoula School District is tackling the high school drop out rate issue.

• Winner, Mississippi Educational Computing Association (MECA) 2008 Technology Administrator of the Year

• Destination Graduation Proclamation by Mississippi Governor, Haley Barbour, January 14-18, 2008

• Campaign Creator & Leader, Destination Graduation!
  
• Campaign Creator & Leader, TEACH Mississippi
  
  
• One of three superintendents selected statewide to serve on a Blue Ribbon Panel to Redesign University Curriculum for Teacher Programs by the Institute of Higher Learning headed by Lynn House
  Jackson, MS September 18, 2006
  
  
  
• Scholastic Inc. Recovery in the Gulf: One Year Later, Mississippi Representative at the Scholastic Headquarters, New York, New York August 9, 2006

• Delta State University, Nissan Superintendents Academy, Keynote Speaker 6/19 and conducted a full day seminar on 6/20 on School Improvement Cleveland, Mississippi June 19, 2006

• District received the Governor's Award for Best Partnership between Industry and Community for post-Katrina Counseling set up through a Chevron Grant
  Jackson, Mississippi

• Participated in the American Library Associations National Town Hall Meeting
  The Keynote Speaker was First Lady Laura Bush and the event was moderated by CNBC's Lester Holt. Selected by Scholastic Inc. as the Mississippi Gulf Coast representative for this event.
  New Orleans, Louisiana June 6, 2006

• Met with the President and First Lady of the United States of America at their announcement of the Laura Bush Library Grant Program at College Park Elementary Gautier, Mississippi, March 8, 2006
  

  

• Mississippi Staff Development Conference Presenter
  Presented on School Improvement
  Jackson, Mississippi on January 24, 2006

• Gautier High School featured in The Achiever National Newsletter from the United States Department of Education
  Volume 5, No. 1 January 2006
  
  

• Received the Terrel H. Bell National Leadership Award
  (one of five recipients; the only secondary principal to receive the award)
  Washington, DC on November 10-11, 2005

• Attended U.S. Department of Education's Blue Ribbon Schools Ceremony
  Personally met with the United States Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Washington, DC November 10-11, 2005

• Officially notified by the United States Department of Education that Gautier High School and Pascagoula High School were named NCLB Nationally Recognized Blue Ribbon High Schools for Superior State Test Performance
  Pascagoula, MS September 2005
  
  
  
  

• Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. In response:
  
• The PSD Team assisted and supported the Red Cross, National Guard, and FEMA application site on the Pascagoula High School campus in the month of September.
  
  

• The PSD Team assisted and supported the Jackson County Emergency Operation Center on the Gautier High School Campus where National Forestry, Engineers, and Recovery Specialist were housed and met for the month of September.
• The PSD Team engineered a plan to clean schools and return to school in 27 days
• The PSD Team applied for and received Restart Grant Money
• The PSD Team applied for and received Displaced Student Money
• 26 Million dollars in damages, 11 flooded schools, two rendered not useable.