• St. Martin High School class of 1985
• Associate of Arts - Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (1988)
• Bachelor of Science in Education - Delta State University (1991)
• Master of Education - Delta State University (1992)
• Master of Education Administration & Supervision - Delta State University (1993)
• Completed coursework for Ph.D. in educational administration at University of Southern Mississippi
• Currently working on dissertation

• 2011 - South Mississippi Outstanding Community Leader, Class of 2010
• 2011 - PREPS Economic Development/Community Partnership Award
• 2010 - Appointee to Education Sub-Committee for the Commision on Children's Justice by Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Randy Pierce
• 2010 - Pascagoula Named 100 Best Communities for Children by America's Promise. Only Community in Mississippi to receive the honor.
• 2010 - District Named Mississippi Kids Count Model Program for addressing teen pregnancy
• 2010 - Graduate of Leadership Jackson County
• 2010 - District wins Spirit of Mississippi Main Street Award - Family Interactive Center
• 2009 - Model Program: National Dropout Prevention Center Network
• 2009 - National Dropout Prevention Network's Crystal Star Award for Excellence in Dropout Recovery, Intervention, and Prevention at the National Dropout Prevention Conference in San Antonio, Texas (October)
• Two National School Public Relations Association Awards of Excellence for Destination Graduation! 2008 and 2009
• Two Southern Public Relations Federation Awards of Excellence for Destination Graduation! 2008 and 2009
• Two Mississippi School Public Relations Golden Medallion awards - the highest award in the state given by MSPRA 2008 and 2009
• PHS and GHS Chosen as Two of America's Best High Schools..  U.S. News and World Report has completed a survey of America's schools, and both high schools in our district appear at the top in Mississippi.
• Pascagoula School District's "Destination Graduation!" Campaign captures Golden Medallion Award. The Pascagoula School District captured the state's top award in the Mississippi School Public Relations Association's 2008 Awards of Excellence program.
• Supt. Wayne Rodolfich presented Mrs. Powell with a Destination Graduation/Teach Mississippi t-shirt and a notebook filled with information on how the Pascagoula School District is tackling the high school drop out rate issue.

• Winner, Mississippi Educational Computing Association (MECA) 2008 Technology Administrator of the Year
• Destination Graduation Proclamation by Mississippi Governor, Haley Barbour, January 14-18, 2008
• Campaign Creator & Leader, Destination Graduation!  
• Campaign Creator & Leader, TEACH Mississippi 
• One of three superintendents selected statewide to serve on a Blue Ribbon Panel to Redesign University Curriculum for Teacher Programs by the Institute of Higher Learning headed by Lynn House Jackson, MS September 18, 2006
   
• Scholastic Inc. Recovery in the Gulf: One Year Later, Mississippi Representative at the Scholastic Headquarters, New York, New York August 9, 2006
• Delta State University, Nissan Superintendents Academy, Keynote Speaker 6/19 and conducted a full day seminar on 6/20 on School Improvement Cleveland, Mississippi June 19, 2006
• District received the Governor's Award for Best Partnership between Industry and Community for post-Katrina Counseling set up through a Chevron Grant Jackson, Mississippi
• Participated in the American Library Associations National Town Hall Meeting
  The Keynote Speaker was First Lady Laura Bush and the event was moderated by CNBC's Lester Holt. Selected by Scholastic Inc. as the Mississippi Gulf Coast representative for this event.
  New Orleans, Louisiana June 6, 2006
• Met with the President and First Lady of the United States of America at their announcement of the Laura Bush Library Grant Program at College Park Elementary Gautier, Mississippi, March 8, 2006
  
  
  
• Mississippi Staff Development Conference Presenter Presented on School Improvement Jackson, Mississippi on January 24, 2006
• Gautier High School featured in The Achiever National Newsletter from the United States Department of Education Volume 5, No. 1 January 2006
  
  
• Received the Terrel H. Bell National Leadership Award (one of five recipients; the only secondary principal to receive the award) Washington, DC on November 10-11, 2005
• Attended U.S. Department of Education's Blue Ribbon Schools Ceremony
  Personally met with the United States Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Washington, DC November 10-11, 2005
• Officially notified by the United States Department of Education that Gautier High School and Pascagoula High School were named NCLB Nationally Recognized Blue Ribbon High Schools for Superior State Test Performance Pascagoula, MS September 2005
• Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. In response:
  
  • The PSD Team assisted and supported the Red Cross, National Guard, and FEMA application site on the Pascagoula High School campus in the month of September.
  • The PSD Team assisted and supported the Jackson County Emergency Operation Center on the Gautier High School Campus where National Forestry, Engineers, and Recovery Specialist were housed and met for the month of September
  • The PSD Team engineered a plan to clean schools and return to school in 27 days
  • The PSD Team applied for and received Restart Grant Money
  • The PSD Team applied for and received Displaced Student Money
  • 26 Million dollars in damages, 11 flooded schools, two rendered not useable.
    
    
    

Every child deserves a chance.

The quickest way to help children believe in themselves

is for you to believe in them first.

How can we make our world a better place

if we do not encourage the world’s future?

If we offer our rising generation only pessimism,

from where will the answers to life’s problems come?

Teach children that they can.

Instill in them the belief that they can change the world.

Who can help them?

You can.

It is your privilege to teach our children.

Teach them

that answers are found through optimism

not pessimism.

Teach them to open up their

hearts and minds,

to preserve

what is left of our world!

Encourage them to make the world a better place.

If we owe the human race anything,

we owe it the opportunity

to preserve itself.

Give our children a chance.

Let them know you believe in them.

Wayne Vincent Rodolfich