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Current Award Recipients

Teacher of the Year
2024 Jessica Minton
2023 Anne Katherine Griffin (KY)
2022 Sarah Staley
2021 Srinivas Pannela
2019 Barbara Putnam
2017 Barbara Putnam
2005 Jo MacDonald (MD), Melanie Abad (GA)
2004 Pamela K DeLoach
2003 Marcy Murray (FL),
Beverly Wallace (GA)
2002 Debbie Wickmanowski (FL),
Marilyn MacLean (ON),
Leisa Morreau-Cummins (IL)

 

Para-Educator of the Year
2024 Isabella Vitatoe
2022 Sue Krennrich
2017 Heather Murphy
2016 Barbara Harris
2005 Nancy Stowe (GA),
Sandy Aronis (NY)
2004 Betty-Sue Garrish
2003 Ruth Hannon
2002 Linda Byrlowski

 

Shriver-Kennedy Student Achievement Award
2024 Cameron Birch
2023 Jiya Rai
2022 William Fitzgerald
2021 Scott Fisher
2020 Michael Johnson
2016 Marissa Schletzbaum
2014 Eric Kirschner
2013 Jesse Harbison
2011 Jordan Obrecht

 

John W. Kidd Subdivision Award
2020 Arkansas
2016 Arkansas
2014 Florida
2013 Ontario
2008 Ontario
2004 Georgia

 

Legislative Award
2022 Alison Tant (FL)
2015 David C. Onley (Ontario, Canada)
2014 Sen. Tom Harkins (Iowa)
2013 Michael Fasano (FL)
2008 Sen. Edward Kennedy
2002 Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD)

 

Tom E. C. Smith Early Career Award
2024 Seyma Intepe Tingir, University of Maryland
2023 Leslie Bross, University of North Carolina Charlotte
2022 ​Annemarie Horn, Old Dominion University
2021 Suzanne Kucharzyk, University of Arkansas
2019 Jenny Root, Florida State University
2018 Melissa Spence, California Lutheran University
2017 Carly Roberts, Washington State University
2016 Jordan Shurr, Central Michigan University
2015 Jason Travers, University of Kansas

 

Burton Blatt Humanitarian Award
2024 Darlene Perner
2023 James Thompson
2022 Karrie Shogren
2021 Michael Wehmeyer
2020 Teresa Taber Doughty
2019 Dianne Zager
2018 Diane Browder
2017 Stan Zucker
2016 Paul Alberto
2015 Stan Zucker
2014 Brenda Smith Myles
2013 Tom Smith
2012 Tina Dyches
2010 Nikki Murdick
2009 Barbara Gartin
2008 Andy Berg
2007 Bob Stodden
2006 Ann & Rub Turnbull
2004 Brenda Smith Myles
2003 Sharon Kramer
2002 Scott Sparks
2001 Jim Patton
Unknown Dave Smith
John Kidd
1998 Ed Polloway
1995 Pam Gillet

 

Research Award
2024 Sarah Douglas, Michigan State University
2023 Veronica Fleury, Florida State University
2022 Shawnee Wakeman, UNC Charlotte
2021 Matthew Brock, Ohio State University
2020 Juliet Hart Barnett, Arizona State University 
2019 Vicki Knight, Vanderbilt University
2018 Kevin Ayres, University of Georgia
2017 Emily Bouck, Michigan State University
2016 Erik Carter, Vanderbilt University
2015 Linda Mechling, UNC at Wilmington
2014 Diane Browder, UNC at Charlotte
2013 Stan Zucker, Arizona State University
2006 Michael Wehmeyer, University of Kansas

 

Last Updated:  23 July, 2024

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