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Bob Gerye is
the founder of two unique high school
programs in Las Vegas, NV, the Las Vegas
Academy of International Studies, Performing
and Visual Arts and Spring Valley SLC/Professional
Career Academy High School. Las Vegas
Academy was recognized by the U.S.
Department of Education as New American High
School in 2000 and as a U.S. Department of
Education Blue Ribbon School in 2002.
Spring Valley High School opened in August
of 2004 As Nevada’s first wall-to wall
smaller learning communities and
professional career academy high school.
Bob was
educated at Washburn University and the
University of Kansas, receiving both
bachelors and masters degrees in English,
English Education and Administration. Gerye
was an English teacher in the suburban
Kansas City area for many years, a corporate
president of a retailing concern, and a high
school principal in suburban Topeka, Kansas,
before moving to Las Vegas in 1991. He was
tapped to begin the Las Vegas Academy in
1992, where he stayed for 11 years,
developing one of the top academic and arts
programs in the U.S. In 2004, he was chosen
to begin the Clark County School District’s
first restructured high school, which opened
in August of 2004.
Bob has been
active in post-secondary education. Before
moving to Las Vegas and teaching for the
Community College of Southern Nevada in
their teacher education program and the
English department, Bob held adjunct
professorships of English and English
Education at the University of Kansas,
Washburn University and Johnson County
Community College. He currently teaches in
the post-graduate program for Sierra Nevada
College, training post-baccalaureate
students for teacher licensure. As a
graduate professor of Education for the
University of Phoenix, he has developed many
aspiring administrators over the past seven
years.
In 1998, the
Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce honored Bob
with the Community Achievement Award in
Education In 2000, the Clark County School
District inducted him into the CCSD
Education Hall of Fame. In 2004, Bob was
named the NASSP Nevada High School Principal
of the Year, received the Jeffrey Lawrence
Award for Lifetime Achievement tin the Arts
from the International Network of Schools
for Advancement of the Arts, and Washburn
University named him a University Fellow for
Lifetime Achievement in Education.
Bob Gerye has
developed two nationally recognized,
restructured high schools in Las Vegas, NV,
that have been awarded the New American High
School Award in 2002 and the U.S. Department
of Education Blue Ribbon School Award in
2002. He has been honored by the Las Vegas
Chamber of Commerce with the Community
Achievement Award in Education, NASSP as the
Nevada Principal of the Year, the
International Network of Schools for
Advancement of Arts for Lifetime Achievement
in the Arts, and Washburn University as a
University Fellow for Lifetime Achievement
and Innovation in Education.
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