2025 Miami-Dade Public Schools principal of the year receives new car

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – The Miami-Dade Public Schools Principal of the Year for 2025 has received a brand-new car.

Walter C. Hall, from Leisure City K-8 Center, won the District’s Principal of the Year.

Hall was handed the keys to a Toyota Camry SE sponsored by Headquarter Toyota connected Tuesday.

The vehicle, with a three-year lease, was presented to Hall during a ceremony.

According to the District, Hall has been an pedagogue astatine M-DCPS for 2 decades.

Hall precocious won the 2025 Florida Taxwatch Principal Leadership Award, recognizing him arsenic 1 of the state’s 15 astir palmy principals from high-risk K-12 schools, based connected schoolhouse information and the enactment with students and the community.

“Life is astir perseverance. This is not a not a abbreviated distance. It’s a long-distance run, and you person to person endurance. You don’t springiness up particularly erstwhile you’re doing bully and you’re doing bully to others and if you don’t springiness up, eventually, you volition reap the benefits of that. I judge that this is benignant of my reaping my reward and I’m thankful for it,” said Hall.

Hall besides received a $2,000 currency prize.

Melissa M. Miller of Frederick Douglass Elementary School was recognized arsenic Assistant Principal of the Year.

According to the District, Miller has been an pedagogue for 14 years. Miller was a teacher and speechmaking manager for 8 years earlier becoming adjunct main astatine Shadowlawn Elementary School for 2 years. In 2021, she became an adjunct main astatine Frederick Douglass Elementary School.

Miller volition person a $1,500 currency prize and a three-to-five-day cruise with an water presumption stateroom courtesy of Royal Caribbean Group.

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