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Blackboard Award winners
Aug 7, 2008 11:42 AM
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Paula Rogovin, PS 290, Manhattan; Yvette Hinds-Joseph, PS 37, Queens.
Public Elementary School Teachers of the Year: Julie Stone, PS 166,
Manhattan; Kristin Broderick, PS 77, Manhattan.
Public Middle School Teacher of the Year: Linda Fields, Brooklyn Studio Secondary School.
Public High School Teacher of the Year: Charles Di Benedetto, Far Rockaway HS, Queens.
Math Teaching: Chance Nalley, Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering, Manhattan.
Brain POP Science Citation: David Deutsch, Manhattan Center for
Science and Mathematics.
Brain POP Jr. Science Citation: Steven Tomsik, PS 107, Brooklyn.
Special Needs Citation: Charlayne Williams, PS 370, Brooklyn.
Rising Star Teachers of the Year: Devon Eisenberg, Mott Hall V Middle School, Bronx; Meghan Kelley, JHS 44, Manhattan.
A dozen New York City public school educators got a well-deserved spot in the limelight when they were honored at the 2008 Blackboard Awards for Teachers ceremony at Fordham University on June 9. What’s more, a lot of everyday New Yorkers learned about the work these educators do when their profiles ran in community newspapers such as Our Town, New York Press and West Side Spirit published by Manhattan Media, which spearheads the event. “We focus on schools and teachers doing things right, because too often the focus in the daily media is on what’s wrong with our schools,” said Charlotte Eichna, Blackboard Awards project director. The project was inaugurated three years ago to salute classroom leaders who not only nail the basics but who go above and beyond the call of duty to help students succeed, according to Tom Allon, president and CEO of Manhattan Media. Nineteen winners were selected from the nearly 300 candidates from public, independent, charter and parochial schools who were nominated by colleagues, current and former students, administrators and parents. UFT President Randi Weingarten represented the union, a co-sponsor of the awards, and congratulated winners for the work they do on behalf the city’s schoolchildren. Sponsoring the Blackboard Awards for Teachers along with the UFT are Brain POP, CUNY, Fordham University, Hunter College, Warehouse Wines and Spirits, Commerce Bank and Verizon. For
more information, log on to www.BlackboardAwards.com.
Julie Stone of Manhattan’s PS 166 is co-winner of the Public Elementary School Teachers of the Year Award.
Kirstin Broderick (center) is congratulated by students from Manhattan’s PS 77 after winning a Public Elementary School Teachers of the Year Award. With her are Weingarten and author Frank McCourt, who presented the awards.
After winning a Lifetime Achievement Award, Paula Rogovin (right) of Manhattan’s PS 290 reminisces with parent Carol Nesby about a day neither will forget. “Her baby was almost born in my classroom,” said Rogovin, who taught both of Nesby’s daughters. “She was showing us how to do an African dance and got contractions. The baby was born within 24 hours.”
