Education Alumnus Named Broward County Public Schools’ Principal of the Year

Philip Bullock, M.S., graduate of NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education (FCE), was named the 2019 Broward County Principal of the Year at the annual Broward County Public Schools’ (BCPS) Caliber Awards.

Mr. Bullock started his career with Broward County Public Schools as a kindergarten teacher at North Side Elementary thirty-three years go.  His first appointment as principal was at Miramar Elementary, where he served as principal for seven years.  Taking the school over just one year after the school was a “D” rated school, the school became an “A” school the following year, where it maintained that “A” rating for six consecutive years—the entire time that he served that community.  The school’s achievement received recognition from the District, State, and even Nationally, when then-governor Jeb Bush and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg visited the school and named it a “Title 1 School of Excellence”. He was then assigned to Coral Cove Elementary, where he served five years as principal.

In 2015, Superintendent Runcie appointed Mr. Bullock to Walker Elementary.  At the time, Walker Elementary was the lowest achieving elementary school in Broward County and one of the lowest achieving schools in the State of Florida.  Walker Elementary moved up two letter grades over the past two years, a 131% increase in student achievement over that timespan, which was the highest increase by percentage of all elementary schools in Broward County.

Mr. Bullock earned his M.S. in Elementary Education with FCE in 1991. For More information on the 2019 Caliber Awards, please visit: https://www.browardschools.com/Page/46708