Character Education Awards
Uncommon Friends Foundation Character Education Awards Program recognizes outstanding educators who use the curricula with skill and artistry. Award recipients display the ability to foster in students the characteristics of the uncommon friends and the philosophy of the Uncommon Friends Foundation. They also inspire colleagues to use the curricula and teach the philosophy of the Uncommon Friends Foundation, inspiring in others the same spirit of adventure, sense of purpose, and capacity for growth that was evident in the lives of those men and women described in the book, Uncommon Friends, authored by James Newton.
Recipients of the Character Education Awards are recognized annually at a dinner that celebrates their outstanding use of the curricula. Educators in public and private schools at every level – elementary, middle school, high school, and college – are eligible. Nominations are made by school administrators, colleagues, community members, or by teachers themselves. Final selection of award recipients is made by the foundation’s Education Committee.
Previous winners of Character Education Awards are:
2002: Charlotte Lippincott, Beverly Pierce, Aubrey Posey, Tonya
Reasoner, and
Bernie
Swartz
2003: Mary Hopkins, Lisa Leonhardt, Jennifer Pinkard, Melinda Priest,
and
Susan Stocker
2004: Suzanne Broughton, Patricia Cicero, Cristina Hernandez, Lynne
McDill,
and Amy Rothenberg
2005: Virginia Harper, Lillian Howell, Jan Maxwell, Karen Rubin,
and
Donna Snyder
2006: Lucy Block, Leaha Clapper, Helen Garcia-Valdez, Charles Hidalgo,
and
Evelyn
Rivera
2007: Mary Lynn Canton, Jody Crouser, Marsha Menear and Mikeol Stroh
2008: Elvira Couret, Leanne Hope, Charles Ryder, and Joann Vukobratovich
The 2008 Dinner Sponsor was Owen-Ames-Kimball Company. Contributors to the award recipients' gift baskets were Edison National Bank, Fran Myers, Jody VanCooney, School Stuff, Traders, Sunshine Seafood Café, Barnes ,Noble Books and Total Wine.