Kudos: Smagorinsky receives Outstanding Public Educator award; Georgia Vision Project and Spark Campaign receive Leading Edge award
Smagorinsky receives Outstanding Public Educator award
Peter Smagorinsky, a distinguished research professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, was recently awarded the Horace Mann League’s 2020 Outstanding Public Educator award. The League presents the award to an educator who has supported public education throughout his or her career.
“I’m very happy for this recognition, which is based largely on the writing I’ve done for the public, mostly for the AJC Get Schooled Blog,” Smagorinsky said. “I encourage others to look beyond the academic wall and speak more directly to the public about education issues that matter to them.”
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Georgia Vision Project and Spark Campaign receive Leading Edge award
The Georgia Vision Project and Spark Campaign were selected as the 2019 recipient of the National School Boards Association’s Leading Edge Award for innovation in service to school districts and their governance teams.
As part of the Georgia Vision Project, Jami Berry, an assistant professor in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, helps promote school system improvements across the state and provide strategies and best practices ranging from government solutions to teaching and learning to transform public education.
“What every one of the districts that we went out to was able to do was clearly articulate how these strands of the vision project were playing out in everyday practice—both at the district level and at the classroom level,” said Berry. Eighty-five percent of Georgia public school districts have passed a resolution supporting the vision project.