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Outstanding Educator AwardsThe Outstanding Educator Awards are made on behalf of the WEM Foundation, which was established in 1998 by Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan to honor the unsung heroes of Minnesota schools. Each year, their foundation sponsors the awarding of six unrestricted $10,000 awards to educators in three categories:Teacher Achievement Award The Teacher Achievement Award honors teachers who help disadvantaged students gain academic achievement through alternative learning environments or approaches. Past recipients have been cited for helping students overcome personal and family barriers to achievement, such as drug use, poor attendance, serious family situations, traumatic injury, disability, poverty, language/cultural differences or a lack of interest in school. The Teacher Achievement Award is supported by a generous grant from the WEM Foundation with two $10,000 award winners. Nominate an Educator for the Teacher Achievement Award Academic Coach of the Year Award The Academic Challenge Coach of the Year Award recognizes K-12 academic challenge coaches who have had an impressive impact on student learning, either in their role as an academic challenge coach, or as both an academic challenge coach and teacher. (A list of the Academic League-endorsed academic challenges is available in the Reach for the Stars catalog which is distributed to schools, and also available on-line in Microsoft Word and pdf versions at http://www.mnaef.org. ) Attributes of previous recipients have included their ability to relate to students (and parents), to motivate and challenge students to succeed academically, their advocacy for initiating or maintaining academic enrichment programs in their school or district, or their leadership in their role as an academic challenge coach. The Academic Challenge Coach of the Year Award is supported by a generous grant from the WEM Foundation with two $10,000 award winners. Ethics in Education Award The Ethics in Education Award honors individuals or school teams who exemplify ethical behavior and who promote ethics curriculum or ethical practices in their schools. This award recognizes the key role of teachers and administrators in promoting an ethical environment and/or ethics within a curriculum, while also guiding students to actively practice ethical behaviors. Nominees are judged on the design of an ethics curriculum broadly applicable to a diverse school or social group, or the expression of ethical principles and beliefs of an educator, and evidence that the ethical standards are applied or modeled in the classroom or school setting. Individuals must be nominated by another person; members of a school- or district-based team of educators may self-nominate. The Ethics in Education Awards are supported by a generous grant from the WEM Foundation, with two $10,000 award winners.Nominate an Educator or Team for the Ethics Award Nominate your Outstanding Educator Anyone may nominate an outstanding educator. Individual nominees must be a licensed teacher in Minnesota; members of a team nominated for the Ethics in Education Award must be licensed educators or administrators in Minnesota. Nominees will be contacted and asked to supply additional information for consideration by a blue-ribbon panel of judges experienced in teaching and education issues. To access the on-line link to the Outstanding Educator awards form, please visit: http://www.mncae.org/wem_foundation.html . Nomination Alternatives If you nominate on-line and receive an error message, or your computer or Internet Service Provider does not allow you to submit an on-line nomination for computer security reasons, please try clicking and dragging to highlight the contents of the completed nomination form, copy the items, and paste them into an e-mail message to send to us at cae@mncae.org . If you are unable to copy and paste, or would prefer to have a printed copy sent to you, please e-mail us at cae@mncae.org or call us at either 763-807-4628 or 507-389-2461. We do confirm our receipt of award nominations, so please let us know if you do not hear from us within two working days after you submit your nomination via e-mail or our website, or within seven working days if you nominate via postal mail. Thank you! (The WEM Outstanding Educator Awards program is administered by the Center for Academic Excellence.)
Select this link to meet the 2004 WEM Outstanding Educator Award Winners, or this link to learn more about the 2003 WEM Outstanding Educator Award Winners.
updated: January 1, 2005 |
