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Professional Awards

CCSS is proud to announce the 2008

John H. Stedman Passion for the Social Studies Teaching Award

Elizabeth Porter, Robert Fitch High School, Groton, CT

CONGRATULATIONS TO: 2008 CCSS Award Recipients
 
 
Excellence in Social Studies Education:
Fred Turner
Friend of CCSS:
Maxwell Amoh
CCSS Service Award:
Dick Harper

Addazio Award:TBA

The Awards will be announced on May 8 at the CCSS Annual Awards Dinner at Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT. Join us!

The John H. Stedman Passion for the Social StudiesTeaching Award
The John H. Stedman Passion for the Social Studies Teaching Award is an annual award given by the Connecticut Council for the Social Studies (CCSS) in honor of the late John H. Stedman, a long-time member of CCSS, a distinguished teacher, and an all around great human-being.
The guidelines are as follows:

- Nominations are for social studies teachers, grades 6-12.
- Nominations may come from individual students or groups of students.
- Students must fill out a nomination form and include a one-page letter explaining why they believe their social studies teacher is deserving of the John Stedman Award.
- The Award will be determined based solely on letters from students, so write well and convince CCSS that your teacher is someone special in the classroom and out.
- Nominations are open from February 1st through March 15.

The Award will be announced on May 8 at the CCSS Annual Awards Dinner at Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury CT.
Download more Information on Award.
Download Nomination Form.
Download John H. Stedman Obituary.

Excellence in Social Studies Education

Purpose:

To recognize exceptional classroom social studies teachers from K-6, 5-8, and 7-12 who teach social studies regularly and systematically in elementary, middle or junior high, and high school settings or at least one half time in a departmentalized school setting.

Criteria:  

Nominees must demonstrate the ability to:

  • Develop and/or use instructional materials creatively and effectively.
  • Incorporate innovative and/or verified effective instructional strategies and techniques.
  • Utilize new scholarship from history, the social sciences, or other appropriate fields.
  • Foster a spirit of inquiry and the development of skills related to acquiring organizing and using information to make decisions related to both domestic and international matters.
  • Foster the development of democratic beliefs and values and the skills needed for citizen participation appropriate to their level students.
  • Show professional involvement in activities such as workshops, curriculum development, committees other association or professional activities, etc.

Nomination Requirements:

  • Letter of nomination.
  • Vitae or Professional resume prepared by the nominee.
  • Letter supporting nomination from nominee.
  • Achievements consisting of not more than five (5) one sided double spaced 8 ½ x 11 pages.
  • Nominee’s current teaching assignment.
  • Up to ten one sided double-spaced pages of supporting documentation that provides objective evidence that the nominee has met the professional criteria listed above. Evidence might include clear reproductions of newspaper articles, teaching evaluations, and letter of support.

Award includes:

  • 1 year membership in CCSS and NCSS
  • Plaque
  • Mini-grant (& annual fall conference session)
  • Annual meeting & dinner

Friend of CCSS

Criteria:  

Nominees must:

  • Be supportive of CCSS.

  • Have furthered the interest of social studies teaching and/or social studies interest in Connecticut.

  • Exhibit conscientious interest and Involvement.

  • Non teaching professional, dedicated to the promotion of Social Studies education.

Award:

  • Napoleon Clock

  • Annual Meeting & Dinner

CCSS Service Award

Criteria:

  • Non-teaching or retired teaching professional.

  • Dedicated, continuous service to further the goals of CCSS.

 

Award:

  • Book Clock

  • Annual Meeting and Dinner

 

 
Special Announcement
WendyNelson Kauffman, a Metropolitan Learning Center social studies teacher, has been named Connecticut History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Preserve America.
www.gilderlehrman.org

Inaugurated in 2004, the History Teacher of the Year Award is designed to promote and celebrate the teaching of American history in classrooms across the United States. It honors one exceptional K-12 teacher of American history from each state and U.S. territory. The selection of the state winner is based upon several criteria, including: experience in teaching American history for at least three years; a deep career commitment to teaching American history; evidence of creativity and imagination in the classroom; and close attention to documents, artifacts, historic sites, and the other primary materials of history.

Nelson Kauffman, a West Hartford resident, is now in the running for the National History Teacher of the Year award to be presented this fall. She will also receive a $1,000 honorarium and a core archive of historybooks and materials donated to the Metropolitan Learning Center library.

"This award gives us the chance to recognize great history teachers across the country," said Lesley Herrmann, Executive Director of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. "It puts exceptional educators front and center."

Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. Increasingly national and international in scope, the Institute targets audiences ranging from students to scholars to the general public. It creates history-centered schools and academic research centers, organizes seminars and enrichment programs for educators, partners with school districts to implement Teaching American History grants, produces print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions, and sponsors lectures by eminent historians. The Institute also funds awards including the Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and George Washington Book Prizes and offers
fellowships for scholars to work in history archives, including the Gilder Lehrman Collection.

Preserve America is a White House initiative that encourages greater shared knowledge about the nation's past and increased local participation in preserving the country's cultural and natural heritage assets. For more information, visit www.preserveamerica.gov
<http://www.preserveamerica.gov/> .

Addazio Award

Criteria:

Nominees must:

  • Have served for a minimum of 15 years in the field of social studies as a teacher and/or supervisor.

  • Be or have been during his/her professional career a member of a professional social studies organization.

  • Qualify in six of the following categories:

  1. Present of past office holder in district, state, or national professional organization

  2. Chairperson of a committee in district, state or national professional organization

  3. Committee member of a district, state, or national professional organization

  4. Active participation in civic organizations

  5. Publications in the field of social studies

  6. Lectures and papers presented to professional and non professional groups

  7. Research in the field of social studies

  8. Involvement in experimental/exemplary programs

  9. Any other contributions in the field of social studies not herein listed

Award:

  • Plaque

  • Fall conference & luncheon

  • Lifetime CCSS membership

  • Yankee Post article