- The Literacy PLN is looking for
exceptional colleagues to recognize. The PLN takes pride in its efforts
to highlight outstanding work by educators and to inform other about it.
Please help us find candidates to consider for this award!
ISTE
Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) support exceptional teaching and
learning throughout the year. Once a year, they honor outstanding
individuals who have demonstrated excellent work in their job role or
topic area. Nominations are currently open!
- Educators (from any license area) who
create original ways to engage students in quality literacy learning
should be acknowledged.
This award recognizes an
educator who has developed an exceptional technology-supported literacy
practice suitable for replication by colleagues. Preview the questions for this award here.
- Have your (or a colleague's) original
curriculum creation featured by the ISTE Literacy PLN. Each year the PLN
features winning practices on its blog and community space in order to
share them with other educators who may benefit from them, either by
sharing them with their own students or by modeling their own creative
efforts on them.
- Be interviewed for the PLN blog – Winners
of this award are given a platform with which to share their experience,
their thoughts about education, and their inspiration through a focused
interview. Interviews appear as online text and/or podcasts and are
shared with the ISTE membership and beyond….
- Join a select group of creative
contributors to the field - The ongoing body of winners of this award
constitutes a group of exceptional contributors to our field. Why not
take your place among them?
Here are winners from the last 3 years' awards.
a) Dr. Rose Reissman - 2020 Winner
https://literacyspecialinterest.blogspot.com/2020/05/dr-rose-reissman-2020-winner-of-annual.html
b) Sirhajwan Idek - 2019 Winner
https://literacyspecialinterest.blogspot.com/2019/05/interview-with-sirhajwan-idek-winner-of.html
c) Tammy Dunbar and Julie Hembree – 2018 Winners
https://literacyspecialinterest.blogspot.com/2018/05/congratulations-to-iste-literacy-pln.html
*** FOR more information and the application link go to>>> https://www.iste.org/membership/awards/PLN-Awards
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Mark Gura Teacher/Faculty (Higher Ed)
Contributing Editor
EdTech Digest
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