teacher of the year

On Friday, August 27, Jeremiah Young of Beaufort High School in Beaufort, South Carolina, was presented with the inaugural National ABCTE Teacher of the Year award at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. with keynote remarks by Dr. Carl Harris, Deputy Assistant Secretary with the U.S. Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

There have now been over 8,000 votes placed for Teacher of the Year and the voting closes at 5pm EDT tonight.

Next, a national winner will be selected from the state winners and that person will be flown to Washington, D.C. in August to receive their award in a ceremony with a representative from the U.S. Department of Education. Stay tuned to our website in early August for the announcement about the recipient of the National ABCTE Teacher of the Year Award.

Voting opened last week for our first ABCTE Teacher of the Year award and runs until Thursday, July 29 at 5pm EDT. In early August, the state winners will be announced on our website and then a national winner will be selected. The national winner will be flown to Washington D.C. to receive the award before a representative from the U.S. Department of Education as well as members of ABCTE's Board of Directors and staff.

We're approaching 2,500 teaching certifications issued and, with story after great story coming to us about our teachers’ accomplishments, we have decided it is time to recognize this fantastic work through an ABCTE Teacher of the Year award.

Today I had the pleasure of attending the US DOE working group on school leadership looking to exchange ideas on teacher recruitment, retention and leadership in general. A number of points from this outstanding discussion: