{"id":20528,"date":"2025-12-05T12:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/?p=20528"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:31:04","slug":"sehd-edd-student-awarded-2026-colorado-high-school-principal-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/2025\/12\/05\/sehd-edd-student-awarded-2026-colorado-high-school-principal-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"SEHD EdD Student Awarded 2026 Colorado High School Principal of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>ToniJo Niccoli<\/b>\u00a0was selected as the 2026 Colorado High School Principal of the Year by the Colorado Association of Secondary School Principals (CASSP), a department of the Colorado Association of School Executives (CASE). Niccoli is the principal of New Meridian High School &amp; the Career Elevation and Technology Center, both a part of the St. Vrain Valley School District. Under Niccoli\u2019s leadership, the on-time student graduation rate has risen from 12.5% to nearly 90%, the dropout rate has decreased from over 25% to below 3%, and students now graduate with college credits and industry certifications. She completed her\u00a0<b>principal licensure at SEHD in Spring 2023. She is currently enrolled in the SEHD EdD program\u2019s executive leadership concentration.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.co-case.org\/news\/715671\/-St.-Vrain-Valley-School-District-leader-named-2026-Colorado-High-School-Principal-of-the-Year-.htm\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ToniJo Niccoli\u00a0was selected as the 2026 Colorado High School Principal of the Year by the Colorado Association of Secondary School Principals (CASSP), a department of the Colorado Association of School Executives (CASE). Niccoli is the principal of New Meridian High School &amp; the Career Elevation and Technology Center, both a part of the St. Vrain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-student-achievement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20529,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20528\/revisions\/20529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehd.ucdenver.edu\/impact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}