Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching

Posted by on March 27, 2011

Nominations Invited for Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching
Deadline: June 1, 2011

Nominations are invited for the Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching, a new award created to honor educators who excel at teaching students from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.

A grant from The Richard W. Riley College of Education and Leadership at Walden University will enable the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program to share their best practices on videos in schools across the United States. These videos, showcasing techniques used by the award-winning educators, will be utilized as part of Teaching Tolerance’s professional development initiative to help teachers become more effective.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit civil rights organization that combats bigotry and discrimination through litigation, education, and advocacy, created the Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching because teaching practices that reach students from diverse backgrounds are often difficult to visualize and implement.

The five winning educators will each receive $1,000 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., later this year.

All teachers are eligible to apply and do not need to use education resources developed by the Southern Poverty Law Center to be eligible.

Complete program guidelines and the online application are available at the Teaching Tolerance Web site.

http://www.tolerance.org/award