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2002 INDUCTEES

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dana kelly

lakeland, fl | YEARS TAUGHT: 1973 - Present

Dana believes that teaching is the single most influential factor in the molding of tomorrow for the world at large. It is a teacher’s duty to capitalize on each child’s innate desire to learn and it is crucial that an individualized educational plan be tailored for every child, taking each from where he is, to a new height. Dana also believes that despite their tremendous potential for greatness, we lose our children to mediocrity far too often. Education must be a priority.
ADDITIONAL RECOGNITION:
  • 2005      Butler-Cooley Excellence in Teaching Award – The Turnaround Management
                   Association
  • 2005      USA TODAY’s All-USA Teacher Team
  • 2003      Volunteer of the Year, Sister Cities International
  • 2002      Disney Teacherrific Award, $18,000
  • 2002      Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award, Montgomery College
  • 2002      Time Magazine, Chevy Malibu Teaching Excellence Award
  • 2001      Featured, Schools in the News Ledger series, Immigrant tutoring program
  • 2001      Teaching Excellence Award, Top 5 state finalist, Florida Education Association
  • 2001      Exemplary Program, only Florida gifted program recognized in NAGC publication
  • 2001      Disney Dreamers & Doers Award
  • 2001      Invited Keynote Speaker, FLAG New Gifted Teacher conference, Jacksonville, FL
  • 2001      Polk County District Teacher of the Year
  • 2001      Master Teacher Business Partnership Summer Intern
  • 2000-01      Southwest Elementary Teacher of the Year
  • 2000-01      Florida Gifted Teacher of the Year, Florida Association of the Gifted
  • 2000-01      Polk County Gifted Teacher of the Year, Florida Association of the Gifted
  • 2001      Writer, four student awards (received) including college scholarship
  • 2000      Disney Community Service Award, “Service Learning”
  • 2000      Disney Teacherrific Award, $5,750
  • 2000      Volunteer of the Year, American Red Cross, Polk Chapter
  • 2000      Scorer, Disney American Teacher Awards, Orlando
  • 1999      National Board Certification, National Board/Professional Teaching Standards
  • 1999      Featured, “What’s Right With Our Schools”, (service-learning) FOX 13 TV
  • 1999      Selected to represent international education in schools to Secretary of State
  • 1998-99      Writer, feature series, bimonthly, bilingual Japanese news magazine, Japan
  • 1998      Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
  • 1998      Featured, “What’s Right With Our Schools”, (exchange program), FOX 13 TV
  • 1997      International study (3 weeks, Japan, volunteerism study in 18 education institutions)
  • 1997      Commendation by Sister Cities International
  • 1996      Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
  • 1995      Selected to host, tour national Japan DOE delegation, per our national DOE
  • 1992      National Writing Award, Jostens Learning Coporation
  • 1991      Florida State Elementary Chess Champs (coach 11 years, 2 states)
  • 1988      Civic Leader in Education award & KC-135 VIP Flight, Grissom Air Force Base
  • 1985      Teacher-in-Space regional semi-finalist, Indiana
  • 1984      Top Graduate Student in Special Education, Indiana University
  • 1975      Honorarium, Outstanding Service with Learning Disabled Children
  • 1976 & 1974      Saving a child’s life citation (twice), Easter Seals & Association of Learning
    ​                             Disabilities
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janice gould

chicago, il | YEARS TAUGHT: 1975 - Present

Janice believes that students who experience success in art will gain hope for their future. It can change their self image from one of incompetence to competence. This confidence will not only be present in their school environment, but also through the tough personal growth they have in front of them.
ADDITIONAL RECOGNITION:
  • 2001      Exceptional Teachers Award and Honorary Chairperson for the 41st Annual
                   Exceptional Children’s Week
  • 1997      Invited to serve on Illinois State Board of Education’s “Accountability and Quality
                    Assurance Team” for a public school
  • 1995 – present      Established permanent Children’s Art Collection for the Illinois State
                                      Board of Education
  • 1993      Awarded “Mural Grant” from Very Special Arts, Illinois
  • 1993      Golden Apple Teaching Award
  • 1992      Kohl International Teaching Award
  • 1992      Initiated into Northwestern University’s Phi Delta Kappa, Professional Education
    ​                Fraternity
  • 1991      One of ten finalists for Illinois Teacher of the Year
  • 1991      Appointed “Lead Teacher” for the vocational department
  • 1990      Lawrence Hall’s Teacher of the Year Award
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jane nelson

orlando, fl  | Years Taught: 1969 - 2002

Jane Bray Nelson conducts her classes with the theory that she is teaching students first and physics second. Jane also believes that her ‘children’ are a living message that she sends to a time and place which she will never see. Her students have won honors from the Physics Olympics, been selected to study at a national research lab, and won the medicine division of the International Science Fair. Three times as many students pass the advanced placement exam as did three years ago. Jane was instrumental in developing the focus school that was granted official countywide magnet school status after only one year. She also was asked to be the teacher-coordinator of the magnet school.
ADDITIONAL RECOGNITION:
  • 2000-02      Teacher Coordinator Global Information and Future Technologies OCPS Magnet
                        School – Orange County Public Schools, FL
  • 1991 -2000      Science Department Chair, School Advisory Board, School Governance Board –
    ​                          OCPS
  • 1990 -2002      Physics – I.B. and AP, Honors, Regular – OCPS
  • 1990-95      Chemistry – Advanced Placement – OCPS
  • 1988-90      Chemistry – AP, Physics – Regular, Physical Science – RoseTree-Media, PA
  • 1980-88      Physics, Biology, Anatomy-Physiology – OCPS
  • 1979      Chemistry – Valencia Community College, FL
  • 1972-74      Chemistry & Geometry – Stamford Schools, CT
  • 1969-71      Chemistry Honors and Advanced – OCPS
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e. may lindquist

brookville, ks | Years Taught: 1931 - Present

E. May (Pat) Lindquists’ first teaching experience was at a one-room country schoolhouse, Yankee Run, in Ellsworth, Kansas in 1931. Pat describes herself not as retired, but as “retreaded”. After thirty-one years of classroom teaching she has given twenty-three years to substituting, homebound teaching, tutoring, and mentoring. She believes the two biggest educational issues facing American education today are respect and apathy. If respect would be taught beginning in the home, it would carry to the schools, spill into the community, and the nation. The community as a whole, not just schools, must accept responsibility for the preparations of all students to succeed in life.
ADDITIONAL RECOGNITION:
  • 1978 – present      K-12, USD #307 Ell-Saline Schools Substitute and Tutor
  • 1960-61      Elementary, USD #305 Salina Schools Substitute and Tutor
  • 1974-76      Kindergarten, Happy Corner, Ell-Saline
  • 1961-74      Primary, Brookville Grade School, Ell-Saline
  • 1958-60      Grades 1-8, Humbarger Rural School, Salina, KS
  • 1956-58      Grades 1-8, Mulberry Rural School, Ellsworth, KS
  • 1944-45      Primary, Kirby-Smith School, Gainsville, FL
  • 1937-42      Primary, Brookville Grade School, Brookville, KS
  • 1934-37      Grades 1-8, Union 96 Rural School, Rice, KS
  • 1931-34      ​Grades 1-8, Yankee Run Rural School, Ellsworth, KS
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lisa crooks

olathe, ks | Years Taught: 1981 - present

Lisa’s educational career began as a teacher of students who were hearing impaired at the Kansas State School for the Deaf where she taught a variety of grade levels. She is the author of Munchable Math where she combines the students’ love of food with appetizing activities to enhance mathematics, and edible experiments in science which create positive, hands-on learning experiences for her students. Her students are involved in community outreach efforts (including the development of Paws for the Cause and Good Bears of the World “Cub Den.") These outreach efforts have ignited both a passion for learning within each student, as well as instilled a compassion for others. Crooks believes that by touching the lives of her students and fellow colleagues, she is able to transform the aptitudes of the children of today and the teachers of tomorrow.
ADDITIONAL RECOGNITION:
  • 2002      Author, Connecting Math & Literature, Published by Creative Teaching Press
  • 2001      Kansas Teacher of the Year Semi-finalist
  • 2001      Christa McAuliffe Fellow
  • 2000      Author, Munchable Math, Published by Creative Teaching Press
  • 1999      National Board Certification
  • 1997      Author, Color Me Learning, Published by Pieces of Learning
  • 1994      Contributing Author, The Best of Good Apples, Published by Good Apple
  • 1994      Who’s Who in American Educators
  • 1994      Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • 1993      ​Kansas Medical Society Award for Excellence in Teaching

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