Three Teachers Who Have Turned Around Students' Lives Named 2007 Butler-Cooley Excellence in Teaching Award Winners
Posted on: Thursday, 30 August 2007, 12:20 CDT
CHICAGO, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Three classroom teachers who have left their imprint on students and in their communities will receive the 2007 Butler-Cooley Excellence in Teaching Award from the organization whose members improve the outcome of underperforming businesses. The Turnaround Management Association (TMA), the only international nonprofit dedicated to corporate renewal and turnaround management, administers the program funded by the John William Butler Foundation. The winners will receive a $5,000 cash stipend and travel expenses for the TMA Annual Convention, October 16-19, 2007, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA.
Vana J. Richards, Kenneth J. Carberry Intermediate School, Emmett, Idaho
Fifth-grade teacher Vana Richards took her cues from NASA to expand hands-on science instruction and launch an after-school science club that has grown three-fold since 2001. She helped the school become designated as a NASA Explorer school, which has brought top scientists into the classroom. As a result, more students are considering science careers.
Majoice Thomas, North Little Rock High School, North Little Rock, Arkansas
Students who never set foot outside North Little Rock have traveled to Europe because of Majoice Thomas. The 10th grade Spanish teacher has shepherded dozens to overseas youth programs and encouraged them to take upper-level classes, advanced exams and join the honor society chapter she founded. Her push to broaden perspectives includes taking students to a ranch run by the nonprofit Heifer International, where they taste the deprivation experienced by so many in the world.
Jeffrey F. Thompson, Evergreen Elementary, Fort Lewis, Washington
Jeffrey Thompson is so serious about his kindergarten students becoming master learners that he grades their parents. His presence looms large at the military base school where most students have fathers deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Thompson fashions elaborate classroom settings, a dinosaur dig and Japanese tearoom among them, in which students draw on skills beyond the rudimentary to accomplish tasks. Nearly all read a grade or two above level by year's end.
TMA has 7,700 members in 40 regional chapters who comprise a professional community of turnaround practitioners, attorneys, accountants, investors, lenders, venture capitalists, appraisers, liquidators, executive recruiters and consultants.
Turnaround Management Association
CONTACT: Michele Drayton, Public Relations Manager of TurnaroundManagement Association, +1-312-242-6044, mdrayton@turnaround.org
Web site: http://www.turnaround.org/
Source: PRNewswire
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