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National Teacher of the Year

2010 Teacher of the Year, Sarah Brown Wessling, with President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

The National Teacher of the Year is a professional award in the United States. The program began in 1952, as a project by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and aims to reward excellence in teaching. It is sponsored by ING.[1]

Selection process

Jason Kamras, 2005 Teacher of the Year, and President George W. Bush in the White House Rose Garden.

Every year, nominations are made by students, principals, teachers and administrators for the State Teacher of the Year awards.[2] The profiles of the winners from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and U.S. Virgin Islands and the Department of Defense Education Activity are submitted to a selection committee made up of representatives from each of the major education organizations.[3] The committee then reviews the data for each candidate and selects four finalists. The winner is chosen from these finalists based on their biography, interview and eight essays they must submit. The President of the United States traditionally presents the award in the White House Rose Garden.

Although there are no clearly defined requirements, the committee looks for:

Duties

The National Teacher of The Year spends a year away from their teaching duties to serve as a spokesman and advocate for the teaching profession. The teacher's state and district continue to pay his/her salary in this year. The arrangements for travel and speaking engagements during the recognition year are taken care of by the CCSSO.[5]

Harassment and politics

Several state winners in the 2020s reported harassment, including death threats, for having pro-LGBT views or being gay. Two were forced to abdicate their responsibilities.[6] Some states (like Georgia) require winners to be apolitical. Others look for candidates that support certain political positions, such as the Arkansas education reform law that limited classroom discussion of critical race theory and LGBT people, or anti-racism in Massachusetts.[6]

Recipients

References

  1. ^ "National Teacher of the Year". Council of Chief State School Officers. Archived from the original on 2006-05-07. Retrieved 2006-05-16.
  2. ^ "Sharon M. Draper: 1997 National Teacher of the Year". Archived from the original on 2007-05-20. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
  3. ^ "Kimberly Oliver: 2006 National Teacher of the Year". Archived from the original on June 16, 2010.
  4. ^ "Selection Process". Council of Chief State School Officers. Archived from the original on 2005-12-12. Retrieved 2006-05-16.
  5. ^ "Recognition Year". Council of Chief State School Officers. Archived from the original on 2006-05-22. Retrieved 2006-05-16.
  6. ^ a b Tal Kopan (August 10, 2023). "Teacher of the Year was supposed to be an honor. Then politics intervened". The Boston Globe.
  7. ^ "2024 National Teacher of the Year, Missy Testerman – ntoy.ccsso.org". Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  8. ^ "2023 National Teacher of the Year, Rebecka Peterson – ntoy.ccsso.org". Retrieved 2023-11-16.
  9. ^ "Tabatha Rosproy, 2020 National Teacher of the Year – ntoy.ccsso.org".
  10. ^ "CapFed Best News: Kansas educator named 2020 National Teacher of the Year".
  11. ^ "Kansas Teacher of the Year Team".
  12. ^ "Tabatha Rosproy named 2020 National Teacher of the Year - CBS News". CBS News.
  13. ^ "Sydney Chaffee | CCSSO".
  14. ^ Layton, Lyndsey (2015-04-27). "A former disc jockey, pet sitter and journalist becomes Teacher of the Year". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
  15. ^ "President Obama Honors the 2013 National Teacher of the Year". whitehouse.gov. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-24 – via National Archives.

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