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Awards & Honors

Awards & Honors

Excellence in Leading and Learning Award, Indiana Department of Education 2024

Chasing Rainbows Award, Dollywood Foundation 2016

Blind Educator of the Year Award, National Federation of the Blind 2016

Hasbrook Award, Bosma Enterprises 2016

Distinguished Alumni Award , Purdue University 2015

Top-Four Finalist for National Teacher of the Year, CCSSO 2015

Indiana Teacher of the Year, IDOE 2015

Sagamore of the Wabash Award, highest civilian honor in Indiana 2014

Awards & Honors

Tippecanoe School Corporation Teacher of the Year 2014

Sticking Your Neck Out for Kids Award, Bauer Family Resource Center 2014

Gedalyah Engel Education Award, Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Committee 2014

District 2 VFW Teacher of the Year 2014

William Henry Harrison High School Teacher of the Year 2013/2014

Lafayette Optimist Club Teacher Grant Winner 2013

NBC “Student Success” Video Contest Winner 2013

Ann DeCamp Creative Teaching Award 2011

Alumni of the Year, Trinity Christian College 2010

Durward K. McDaniels Ambassador Award, American Council for the Blind 2009

Eli Lilly Distinguished Fellow, $25,000 grant winner 2009

Helen Keller Foundation International Memoir Competition, First Place 2006

Awards & Honors Cont.

Eli Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellowships 2006 & 1998

Butler-Cooley Excellence in Teaching Award, Turnaround Management Association 2004

Shining Example Award, Associated Colleges of Illinois 2003

Golden Apple Teaching Award, Greater Lafayette Commerce 1998

Olympic Torch Bearer 1996

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