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Milken Family Foundation Educator Awards

Goals of the program include honoring and rewarding outstanding K-12 educators for the quality of their teaching, their professional leadership, their engagement with families and the community, and their potential for even greater contributions to the healthy development of children. Goals also include the advancement of education technology as a means to improve the performance of students, enhance the effectiveness of educators and strengthen the engagement of parents and the community.

Visit, learn from, and share with the Massachusetts Milken Educators who have opened their classrooms to you for the 2000-2001 school year.

This program is sponsored by The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Milken Family National Foundation

The Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards program provides recognition and financial rewards to elementary and secondary school teachers, principals and other education professionals who are furthering excellence in education. By honoring outstanding educators, the program strives to attract, retain and motivate talented people to the challenge and adventure of teaching.

Take advantage of this opportunity to expand your collegial and professional connections while you add to your professional development.

Featured Professionals

Contact the featured professionals by e-mail to make arrangements for classroom visitation. At the end of the visitation day, you and your host will meet to discuss and share teaching ideas, philosophies, and strategies. The Milken Educators will also share current state reforms and initiatives with you that are available to promote teacher advancement within Massachusetts.

Wayne Boisselle, 1998 Milken Educator
Technology Integration Specialist
Wachusett Regional School District
Princeton, MA
Wayne_Boisselle@wrsd.net
Travel from school to school to see technology integration in action.

Patricia Clem, 1997 Milken Educator
Powder Mill Middle School, Principal
Southwick, MA
Pclem@strsd.southwick.ma.us
See middle school teaming and inclusion.

James DeProfio, 1999 Milken Educator
Lowell High School
Lowell, MA
Jdep@massed.net
See multi-sensory teaching strategies used with a diverse group of learners.

Maria Ferrandini, 1997 Milken Educator
Cashmon Elementary
Amesbury, MA
Mferran@massed.net
See a grade 3-4 looping model incorporating writing across the curriculum.

Bill Henderson, 1998 Milken Educator
O'Hearn School, Principal
Boston, MA
Whenders@boston.k12.ma.us
Visit the principal and inclusive classrooms of an early childhood through grade five school with students from diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.

Kevin P. McArdle, 1997 Milken Educator
John F. Ryan School, Principal
Tewksbury, MA
Kmcardle@massed.net
Meet the principal of an upper elementary technology-rich school.

Karin Orbon, 1999 Milken Educator
North Brookfield High School
North Brookfield, MA
Kmorbon@yahoo.com
Meet the teacher of "Investing in the Stock Market," a Virtual High School course, and the students who are taking electives on-line.

Janice Smith, 1999 Milken Educator
Weymouth Junior High School - Pleasant Street Campus
Weymouth, MA
Jesmith@earthlink.net
Visit the eighth grade English Language Arts classroom of the creator of Ms. Smith's English Page, an enrichment/resource web page for students.

Sheila Smith-McAdams, 1998 Milken Educator
Winthrop Elementary
Ipswich, MA
Ssmith@massed.net
Explore a technology-rich classroom where students are active participants in designing their own learning experiences.

David R. Vito, 1997 Milken Educator
North Attleborough High School
North Attleborough, MA
Na_bigdig@yahoo.com
See how high school students have taken science into the community by conducting a paleontology study and an ecological field study with the Audubon Society and a fourth grade class.

Joan Vohl Hamilton, 1997 Milken Educator
Fairview Veterans Memorial Middle School
Chicopee, MA
Jvohl@massed.net
Learn how heterogeneously grouped eighth grade students are motivated to read classic and contemporary novels and regularly apply critical thinking skills through a process reading program.

Alma Wright, 1997 Milken Educator
Trotter Elementary School
Boston, MA
Awright@boston.k12.ma.us
Visit a first/second multi-graded classroom in an urban setting.