Kelly Murphy ’12 and Kate Benenson ’13 were honored with Success Academy Charter Schools Excellence Awards. Murphy won an ETHOS Excellence Award, which recognizes school staff who best demonstrate the New York City charter-school operator’s values, while Benenson won the Teacher Growth Award, which recognizes teachers who have exhibited the most significant progress in achieving classroom-wide excellence since the start of the school year. Murphy, an English and education major, teaches seventh-grade English at Success Academy Harlem North West in New York City. Benenson, a psychology and education policy major, teaches first grade at Success Academy Harlem 5, also in New York City.