Note to reader: I have collected 24 articles addresses various aspects of CI instruction. They will be published under separate cover in these Patreon pages, but I also wanted to feature them here as blog posts over the next few weeks simply because they are so impressive and therefore useful to we who are waging the war on behalf of CI. Arranged in no particular order, they can be printed out and shared with CI doubters, or with novice CI teachers just trying to wrap their heads around CI. They are mainly intended to provide Ben’s Patreon patrons with a stronger and more robust general knowledge of CI and what it can do.
Here is the first article:
This is a partial list of CI Teachers of the Year in various places around the country. We only developed this document from information during the years 2015-2017 but it is sufficient to show how CI teachers typically receive lots of awards:
State Teachers of the Year (2015-2017):
Sarah Breckley – Wisconsin Teacher of the Year 2017
Paul Kirschling – Colorado WL Teacher of the Year 2017
Sabrina Janczak – Colorado WL Teacher of the Year 2016
Grant Boulanger – Minnesota WL Teacher of the Year 2015
Annick Chen – Colorado WL Teacher of the Year 2015
Skip Crosby – Maine WL Teacher of the Year 2015
Darcy Pippins – Oklahoma WL Teacher of the Year 2015
Carrie Toth – Illinois WL Teacher of the Year 2015
Michele Whaley – Alaska WL Teacher of the Year 2014
Leslie Davison – Colorado WL Teacher of the Year 2014
Barb Cartford – Minnesota WL Teacher of the Year 2009
Jeremy Jordan – Missouri WL Teacher of the Year 2016
Kimberly Smith-Huegerich – Iowa WL Teacher of the Year 2017 (Secondary)
Meg Fandel – Iowa WL Teacher of the Year 2017 (ELEM-MS)
Christine M McCormick – Iowa WL Teacher of the Year 2016 (Secondary)
ACTFL Regional Awards (one of five regional finalists for ACTFL National Teacher of the Year):
Darcy Pippins – ACTFL Southwest Conference Teacher of the Year 2016
Grant Boulanger – ACTFL Central States Conference Teacher of the Year 2016
Dale Crum – ACTFL Southwest Conference Teacher of the Year 2009
Robert Patrick – ACTFL Southern Conference Teacher of the Year 2014
Carrie Toth – ACTFL Central States Conference Teacher of the Year 2015
Michele Whaley – ACTFL Pacific Northwest Conference Teacher of the Year 2015
Other awards:
Jenny KD – New York Leadership Initiative for Language Learning (LILL-ACTFL) 2017
Meredith White – Georgia Leadership Initiative for Language Learning (LILL-ACTFL) 2017
Christine M McCormick Iowa Secondary WLTOY 2016John Bracey – Classical Association of Massachusetts Excellence in Teaching Award (Massachusetts Latin Teacher of the Year) 2016
Skip Crosby – Northeast Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Teacher of the Year Finalist 2015; District Teacher of the Year Androscoggin (ME) 2014
Joseph Dziedzic – Jared Polis (U.S. Congressman – CO) Foundation Teacher Recognition Award 2011
Cathy Elliot – Gotong Royong Award by the Indonesian Teachers Association of South Australia 2015
Carol Gaab – Language Teacher of the San Francisco Giants (three World Series rings)
Steven Johnson – Northwestern High School Teacher of the Year 2012
Diana Noonan – President, Colorado Conference on Foreign Language Teaching 2015; Leadership Lamp, Denver Public Schools
Mary Overton – Colorado (CCFLT) Lynn Sandstedt Scholarship for study in Spain 2016
Ian Perry – Confucius Institute of Queensland (Australia) Excellence in Teaching Award 2015
Don Read – District Teacher of the Year Moraga (CA) 2015
Jennifer Wetzig – Colorado (CCFLT) Excellence in Teaching Award 2016
Mark Webster – Teacher of the Year, 2004-Spring Lake (MI) High School.