announcesCALL FOR ENTRIES

Everybody knows at least one great teacher.

We'd like to recognize two.

The Awards’ Purpose In 2012-2013, two prizes of $25,000 each will be available from the McGlothlin Foundation to award a Kindergarten – Grade 5 public school teacher and a Middle/High School public school teacher who each excel in their fields. This award is intended to recognize innovative full-time classroom teachers with at least five years of experience from core curriculum areas, and foreign language, art and music, who have not previously won major awards in education.

A requirement of the awards is: $10,000.00 is to be used, within a year, for international travel to broaden the think-ing and experience of the winning teachers, further enhancing their excellence as professional educators.

Who is EligibleTo be eligible, teachers must be under continuing contract to one of the following public school divisions:

Virginia:Alleghany Co.Amherst Co.Appomattox Co.Bath Co.Bedford Co.Bland Co.Botetourt Co.Bristol CityBuchanan Co.Campbell Co.Carroll Co.

Covington CityCraig Co.Danville CityDickenson Co.Floyd Co.Franklin Co.Galax CityGiles Co.Grayson Co.Halifax Co.Henry Co.Lee Co.

Lynchburg CityMartinsville CityMontgomery Co.Norton CityPatrick Co.Pittsylvania Co.Pulaski Co.Radford CityRoanoke CityRoanoke Co.Russell Co.Salem City

Scott Co.Smyth Co.Tazewell Co.Washington Co.Wise Co.Wythe Co.West Virginia:McDowell Co.Mercer Co.

Kentucky:Letcher Co.Floyd Co.Pike Co.PikevilleIndependentTennessee:Bristol CityJohnson City Kingsport Sullivan Co.Washington Co.

Staff and relatives of Blue Ridge PBS, the McGlothlin Foundation, and award judges are not eligible.

The 2013

The 2013 McGlothlin Awards for Teaching Excellence

“The McGlothlin Foundation’s goal is for the awards to inspire recipients, their students, their peers, and

indeed, their entire school. It is our intent to find the best teachers in today’s classrooms around our region. We want to recognize their fine work, reward them

for it, and by so doing inspire others to the high qualities they exemplify. Certainly, this award

will recognize, in a rather significant way, what we consider one of the most important professions -- and

one with so many unsung heroes.”

Thomas D. McGlothlin,President, McGlothlin Foundation

2012: • Thomas Foster: earth and physical science, Paul L.

Dunbar Middle School for Innovation, Lynchburg, VA. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

• Katherine Lear: first grade, Penn Forest Elementary School, Roanoke County, VA. Ancient sites in Egypt, Italy, Greece

2011: • Liz Phillips: seventh grade English, Wallace Middle

School, Washington County, VA. England and Cornwall

• Lisa Taylor: second grade, Belview Elementary School, Montgomery County, VA. Galapagos Islands

2010: • Steve Sizemore: sixth grade history, William Byrd

Middle, Roanoke County, VA. Portugal, England and France

• Allyson Willis: third grade, Watauga Elementary, Washington County, VA. Greece and Rome

2009: • Jayanne Bridges: sixth grade science, Christiansburg

Middle, Montgomery County, VA. Africa • Elizabeth Lester: first grade, Patrick Henry

Elementary, Martinsville, VA. England and Ireland 2008: • Tracy Easterling: mathematics, Vance Middle,

Bristol, TN. Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, England, Turkey, France and Scotland

• Tamatha Farrell: fifth grade, Burlington Elementary, Roanoke, VA. England, France and Spain

2007: • Cynthia Kelley: English, Amherst County High,

Amherst County, VA. Ireland • Casey Moorleghen: fourth grade, Thomas Jefferson

Elementary, Kingsport, TN. Greenland, Sweden, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal

2006: • John Dodson: social studies, Rocky Gap High,

Bland County, VA. England and Scotland • Jennie Finney: fifth grade, Stony Mill Elementary,

Pittsylvania County, VA. Australia and Great Barrier Reef

2005: • Diana Duckworth: earth science, Rustburg High,

Campbell County, VA. Galapagos Islands and Iceland• Michele Dahlquist: third grade, Crystal Spring

Elementary, Roanoke, VA. Russia, Europe, and the Mediterranean

2004: • Elizabeth (Beth) Campbell: third grade, Glenvar

Elementary, Roanoke County, VA. Egypt, Italy, England, France and Greece

• Carol Fox: English and social studies, Blacksburg Middle, Montgomery County, VA. Vietnam

2003: • Ben Talley: fifth grade, Van Pelt Elementary,

Bristol, VA. Canada • Deborah Anderson: chemistry, Rocky Gap High,

Bland County, VA. Scotland 2002: • Ben Bazak: mathematics, Patrick Henry High,

Roanoke, VA. Egypt, Greece, and Italy • Wade Whitehead: third grade, Crystal Spring

Elementary, Roanoke, VA. Rome and Pompeii 2001: • Karen Cross: eighth grade world geography, E.B.

Stanley Middle, Washington County, VA. Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and Peru

• Karen Nelson: first grade, Perrymont Elementary, Lynchburg, VA. South Korea

2000: • Jenna Swann: fifth grade, Price’s Fork Elementary,

Montgomery County, VA. India and Nepal • David Carroll: science, Pulaski County High,

Pulaski County, VA. Northern Cascades Mountains

HistoryBeginning in a farmhouse nestled in the mountains of Buchanan County, Virginia, the McGlothlin family was sustained in their early years through farming and coal mining. As their success grew, the family business became involved in oil, gas, real estate, and financial services. The McGlothlin Foundation was created in 1998 to support worthy causes in higher education, health care, and the arts in southwest Virginia, West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and northeast Tennessee.

Since 1999, Blue Ridge PBS has directed The McGlothlin Awards for Teaching Excellence for the McGlothlin Foundation. For 46 years this community-licensed broadcast system has served education needs, from preschool through formal education to adulthood learning, via programs on-air, online and on-site. Bringing the world to our region are Blue Ridge PBS stations WBRA/Roanoke, WMSY/Marion and WSBN/ Norton, Virginia.

Former McGlothlin Award Winners

How to ApplyRound One. Classroom teachers may be nominated or may nominate themselves by submitting an electronic entry form found at blueridgepbs.org/educate/mcglothlin-awards-for-teaching-excellence and the elements listed below. All entry materials must be in PDF format and sent electronically to McGlothlin@BlueRidgePBS.org. Candidates must agree to a background check.The following elements should be electronically submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. October 19, 2012:Resume or curriculum vitae that lists the nominee’s

• education history• employment history• continuing professional development• awards/honors• regional, state, national, international presentations• volunteer service to the community

Three letters of recommendation, forwarded from the reference.(Suggested sources: principals, supervisors, parents, colleagues, current or former students.)

Nominees must provide a personal statement about their teaching (limit is two (2) typewritten pages, 12 point font, 1 inch margins) that demonstrates how they fulfill the criteria of the McGlothlin Awards. Please address these important points:

How do you bring the world to your classroom?Where would you choose to spend $10,000 of your award for international travel? How would this enhance learning for your students?

Round Two. Each semifinalist must electronically submit a standards-based lesson plan (limit is 4 pages) and send us a video of themselves teaching that lesson to their students. Semi-finalists are asked to grant rights to publish their lessons and/or use their videos on websites, in print or on the air. DO NOT SEND A VIDEO AND LESSON until you are notified you are a semifinalist.Round Three. As the final step in this process, the judges will observe the six finalists’ classrooms and conduct interviews with the finalists and their spokespersons.

Questions? Contact: McGlothlin@BlueRidgePBS.org

What the Judges will be EvaluatingThe following dispositions are observed throughout the judging process:• Teaching for at least 5 years, with plans to

continue in the teaching profession• How the travel portion of the award will help

“bring the world” to the classroom• Commitment to the teaching profession and to

continuing professional development (for oneself, mentoring other educators, and/or encouraging young people to become teachers)

• Inspiring students, other educators, and the community to value and enjoy learning

• Meeting the diverse needs of learners• Promoting a high level of student engagement and

achievement• Personal intellectual, ethical, moral, and social

standards that inspire the nominees’ students to lives of service and social responsibility

The JudgesThe McGlothlin Foundation and Blue Ridge PBS are grateful to these institutions for loaning us the expertise of their professional education leaders for the judging of awards beginning in 1999:

Emory & Henry CollegeFerrum College

Hollins UniversityKing College

Radford University Roanoke College

Virginia Intermont College

VA TechBristol City Schools

Craig County SchoolsLynchburg City SchoolsRoanoke City Schools

Roanoke County SchoolsVirginia Department of Education

Timeline Summary 10/19/12 Due by 5 p.m. Round One deadline to electronically submit entry

materials to McGlothlin@BlueRidgePBS.org

10/23/12 Judging of Round One; semi-finalists selected in each category – Elementary (K-5) and Secondary (6 -12)

10/25/12 Notification to semi-finalists and to regional media

12/21/12 Due by 5 p.m. Round Two deadline for semi-finalists:

• Send a 20-minute video lesson including the use of instructional technology.

• E-mail a PDF of an original standards-based lesson plan to accompany the video lesson.

• Include an explanation of how instructional technology is integrated into the lesson

• Include a written statement releasing the lesson for unrestricted educational use—with attribution—to share with other teachers

1/8/13 Judging of Round Two submissions

1/10/13 Notification made to finalists in each category. Finalists’ names released to media

1/17/13 – 3/08/13 Classroom observations of finalists.

Presentation of McGlothlin Awards to an elementary level teacher and a middle/high school teacher in a ceremony at Radford University

Please complete the electronic entry form found at www.BlueRidgePBS.org/mcglothlin-awards/how-to-apply and submit with your electronic entry.

Name: E-Mail address:

Home Address:

Home Phone Number: School Phone Number:

School Name: Grade Level:

School Address:

Division: State:

Name of Superintendent:

Signature of Superintendent:

More information on the McGlothlin Awards is available at www.BlueRidgePBS.orgP. O. Box 13246 Roanoke, VA 24032

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April 18, 2013