Tim Hensley, APR, assistant to the superintendent for Floyd County Schools, has been selected to lead a national organization of school public relations professionals and communicators.  He has been elected President-elect of the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA.)  The NSPRA national office is located in the Washington, D.C. area.  Hensley will serve one year as President-elect of NSPRA beginning his term on October 1, 2008.  According to the organization’s by-laws, he will take on the position of President on October 1, 2009 and serve for one year.  Hensley was elected to the position by the organization’s membership from across the United States and Canada.

Hensley is in charge of public relations and communications for Floyd County Schools and has been employed by the school system since 1989.  He earned his professional Accreditation (APR) in public relations from the Universal Accreditation Board in 2006. 

Hensley was previously elected to a three-year term as Southeast Region Vice President for NSPRA in 2003.  He served on the school PR organization’s Executive Board from October 1, 2003 until October, 2006.  The Southeast region includes; Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. 

Hensley has also held state leadership positions serving as president of the Georgia School Public Relations Association (GSPRA), a state chapter of NSPRA in 1995 and 2003.  He was named GSPRA’s Distinguished Service Award winner in 1998 and won the association’s Andy Olson Excellence in School Public Relations Award in 2003.  

NSPRA is governed by a 12-MEMBER EXECUTIVE BOARD, which consists of the president, president elect, vice president for diversity engagement, vice president at large - superintendent of schools, vice president at large – school boards and seven regional vice presidents distributed geographically as Northeast, Mideast, Southeast, North Central, South Central, Northwest, and Southwest sections of the United States, its territories and Canada; and an executive director.

Since 1935, the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA) has been providing school communication training and services to school leaders throughout the United States, Canada, and the U.S. Dependent Schools worldwide.

NSPRA's mission is to advance education through responsible communication. The organization seeks to accomplish that mission through a variety of diverse services that are provided to members and to other school leaders. With over 65 years of experience, NSPRA has a reputation in the field for practical approaches to solving school district and agency communication problems.