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Monday, October 8, 2018

Kip Motta Given Lifetime Achievement Award In Education


October 8, 2018.   Northern Utah Curriculum Consortium (NUCC) announced Kip Motta, Principal of Rich Middle School and North Rich Elementary, has been selected as the recipient of the NUCC Lifetime Achievement Award in Education.  Principal Motta will be recognized for this achievement at the NUCC fall administrators conference being held at the Davis Conference Center on October 11, 2018.  NUCC is recognizing Principal Motta for his contributions to the education of students in Rural Utah.  He has demonstrated exceptional leadership in the areas of educational technology, curriculum development, and with being a spokesperson ensuring overall educational equity for all Utah rural school students.

Principal Motta earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Montana Western and his master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati.  In 1982, he started his educational journey coaching and teaching at a rural K-12 school district in central Ohio.  After a year in Ohio. Motta moved to Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas where he coached basketball and taught mathematics.  After a three-year stint in Athens, Kip moved to Washington State University to coach basketball, then onto the NBA where he coached four teams over a seven-year period.  

Principal Motta moved to Rich County as the Middle School mathematics teacher in 1997, and in 2000 he became the principal of both the elementary and middle schools. 

Throughout his 22 years in the Utah Public Education System, Principal Motta has served as a member and chairperson of NUCC, a Small Middle School Representative, President-elect, President, and Past-president of Utah Association of Secondary School Principals (UASSP), a Board member of Utah Rural Schools Association (URSA), and an elected member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP).

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