Foundation’s annual fundraising efforts for public education, which is expected to total approximately $1.4 million. This year, part of the gala’s proceeds will be used to restock hurricane ravaged public school libraries in the Gulf Coast states. More than 800 education and corporate leaders and government officials attended this Mardi Gras themed event on Thursday evening, February 8th.
The first friends that I met up with were colleagues from the Midwest Region. Pictured here (at left) are state presidents Donna DeKraai, South Dakota Education Association (SDEA) and Stan Johnson, Wisconsin Education Assoication Council (WEAC).
The "masked" guests are all members of Team ISEA getting into the spirit of the Mardi Gras theme! Pictured (from left to right) here are Jan Reinicke, Executive Director; me; Jackie Warnstadt, 2006 Iowa Teacher of the Year; Gayle Jeffers, NEA Director and Jim Young, NEA Director.
This year's Salute to Excellence in Education featured:
The NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education inspires public education employees to ensure that all students succeed. As the Foundation of the National Education Association, we believe that:
*public education excellence is vital for our democracy and should be attainable for all;
*education employees determine the quality of public education;
*students should actively pursue their education;
*education employees should embrace diversity and act accordingly;
*effective education employees should continually learn, apply their knowledge, share their expertise, and lead their profession; and
*education employees should partner with their peers, researchers, policymakers, and communities to make public schools great for every child.
This year, Avery Brooks served as Celebrity Host. He is an accomplished actor, director, musician, and tenured professor at Rutgers University. Credits include Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Hawk on Spenser: For Hire (television); Othello in Shakespeare's Othello and Phillip Hayes Dean in Paul Robeson (stage); and Dr. Bob Sweeney in American History X and Paris in The Big Hit (feature films).
This year's Salute to Excellence in Education featured:
The NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education inspires public education employees to ensure that all students succeed. As the Foundation of the National Education Association, we believe that:
*public education excellence is vital for our democracy and should be attainable for all;
*education employees determine the quality of public education;
*students should actively pursue their education;
*education employees should embrace diversity and act accordingly;
*effective education employees should continually learn, apply their knowledge, share their expertise, and lead their profession; and
*education employees should partner with their peers, researchers, policymakers, and communities to make public schools great for every child.
This year, Avery Brooks served as Celebrity Host. He is an accomplished actor, director, musician, and tenured professor at Rutgers University. Credits include Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Hawk on Spenser: For Hire (television); Othello in Shakespeare's Othello and Phillip Hayes Dean in Paul Robeson (stage); and Dr. Bob Sweeney in American History X and Paris in The Big Hit (feature films).
The NEA Foundation Award for Outstanding Service to Public Educ
ation
ation Billie Jean King Recipient
Tennis legend and lifelong activist for equality and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which banned sex discrimination in federally funded academic and athletic programs.
Eric Carle Recipient
Acclaimed creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into more than 30 languages and sold over 22 million copies.
The NEA Foundation would like to thank Eric's publisher, Penguin Young Readers Group, for donating 5,000 assorted children and youth titles to NEA's Books Across America, a nationwide program aimed at providing books to public school libraries and students in need.
In this first year, the program will focus on getting books to more than 40 public school libraries damaged by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. The NEA Foundation is pleased to partner with NEA on this program and thanks Penguin Young Readers Group for this significant contribution.
2007 Recipients of The I CAN Learn®–NEA Foundation
Awards for Teaching Excellence
Forty states nominated educators for the I CAN LEARN-NEA Foundation Award. Team ISEA was proud to partner with the Sioux City Education Assocation in nominating Jacke Rae Warnstadt, Iowa's 2006 Teacher of the Year and 4th grade teacher at Leeds Elementary in Sioux City. Jackie is pictured (on right) with her Award from the NEA Foundation.
2007 Recipients of The Horace Mann-NEA Foundation
Awards for Teaching Excellence
The final award honoring educators was the Horace Mann-NEA Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence. Of the forty educators nomiated, the overall winner was James A. Brooks. Mr. Brooks was nominated by the North Carolina Association of Educators. He is a film and photojournalism teacher at West Wilkes High School in Millers Creek, North Carolina. The evening was a celebration of the great things that go on in America's public schools every day!
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