Awards for Teaching Excellence
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Eyes on the Prize: Announcing the 2011 Awards for Teaching Excellence Recipients
The National Selection Panel for The NEA Foundation’s Awards for Teaching Excellence has selected the five 2011 recipients of The Horace Mann Awards for Teaching Excellence. Each will receive $10,000 and will be recognized at the gala on February 11, 2011 . One of these five educators will receive The NEA Member Benefits Award for Teaching Excellence and an additional $25,000.
The Horace Mann Awards for Teaching Excellence 2011 recipients are:
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Kathy Steinhoff, an 8-9th Grade Math Teacher at Jefferson Junior High School in Columbia, MO;
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Teresa Lawrence McNeill, a Math Teacher and ESL Program Coordinator at Walter Hines Page High School in Greensboro, NC;
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Maryann Woods-Murphy, a Spanish Teacher & Diversity Educator at Northern Highlands Regional High School
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Karen Gorringe, a 6th Grade Educator at Bluffdale Elementary, in Bluffdale, UT; and
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Terri Vest, a 7-12th Grade English and Social Studies Teacher at Twinfield Union School in Plainfield, VT
View the list and photos of all of the 2011 State Affiliate Awardees.
About the Awards for Teaching Excellence
The NEA Foundation's Awards for Teaching Excellence recognize, reward, and promote excellence in teaching and advocacy for the profession. They also honor public education and the dedicated members of the NEA.
The NEA Foundation and the National Education Association jointly present the awards with support from NEA Member Benefits, the Horace Mann Companies, and the Pearson Foundation. All awardees are honored at The NEA Foundation's Salute to Excellence in Education Gala held in Washington, DC each February.
Five educators receive The Horace Mann Award for Teaching Excellence, $10,000 in cash and expenses-paid travel to the gala for themselves and a guest. The NEA Member Benefits Award for Teaching Excellence recipient receives $25,000 in cash. Thanks to support from the Pearson Foundation, the five top awardees receive digital arts training for their schools. The educators are honored at the gala with videos created by teams of students and teachers.
Read more about the 2010 awardees and watch the video profiles created by their students.
Nomination
Each spring, the Foundation invites every NEA state, federal, and direct affiliate to nominate one outstanding educator for these prestigious awards. All members of a local NEA affiliate or bargaining unit, including teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff, are eligible for The NEA Foundation Awards for Teaching Excellence.
Through these awards, the Foundation recognizes innovative instructional experts who also advocate for public education; connect students with community resources; engage in professional development and lifelong learning; and attend to diversity.