Background

MPCA held its first Community Teacher's Awards Ceremony, at Paul Robeson High School, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. CTA recognized five exemplary minority educators for their dedicated service in a minority community. This year MPCA’s Community Teacher’s Awards will proudly honor exemplary Educators in the US and abroad on June 9^th, 2003. It will celebrate the diversity among educators and the need for cultural understanding in diverse communities.

Teachers worldwide are at the forefront of the effort to reach Education for All (EFA), the global initiative striving for universal basic education by 2015. EFA strives to reach children, youth and adults globally, especially those in disadvantaged or marginalized settings. EFA encourages school, local and national action to meet the diverse needs of students in school and reaching the close to 125 million school-going age children who are out of school. MPCA joins in the EFA initiative through its MPCA Community Teacher’s Awards.

Purpose

The MPCA Community Teacher's Awards celebrates the efforts of teachers in the face of the many challenges to education today.

Specifically, MPCA hopes this recognition will:

§ contribute to Peace Corps’ third goal and promote the MPCA mission,

§ promote Education for All, especially education in minority communities and abroad,

§ build awareness about, and support the need for, more diversity among educators within Peace Corps and throughout the nation and

§ encourage teachers to continue to inspire, motivate and facilitate discovery and learning for children and young people in diverse communities and settings.

Community Teacher's Awards

Recipients will receive:

§ $500.00 to offset the cost of any additional school supplies for the stateside recipient and a pizza party for one of their class.

§ Up to $500.00 will go to the Peace Corps Partnership program in support for an educational project overseas in a country that a Peace Corps volunteer serves in.

§ A plaque signed by the President of MPCA and a Peace Corps, or Department of Education, representative.

Eligibility

This year one recipient out of five finalist will receive the award and the four remaining finalist will receive gift certificates. Teachers are nominated by school committee made up of the PTA, students broad and school administration. Nominees will have demonstrated leadership in their profession, impacting their students learning and actions, as well as affecting their school and the larger community. The other recipient; an (African-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-America or Native American) Peace Corps educational Volunteers based in one of the over 60 countries where Peace Corps serving abroad working on an educational project which makes a significant impact in their community of service.

Support the MPCA Community Teacher's Awards

§ MPCA will hold an online fundraiser from April, 29, 2004 to June 4, 2004.

§ SOB’s will host a fundraiser on June 4, 2004 at SOB’s from 6:30PM - 7:30PM

§ Individual or group contributions are welcomed.

Please visit our CTA Fundraiser Page or MPCA Donation Page to make a donation.

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