This collection of awards is granted annually to celebrate innovative individuals and institutions who have made outstanding contributions to Multicultural Education. Making nominations for the NAME Awards is a privilege of NAME membership. Congratulations to this year’s recipients! 
 

G. Pritchy Smith Award
Multicultural Educator of the Year 

2007 Winner
Tchet Dereic Dorman
Office of Multicultural Affairs
Temple University
Coatesville, PA 

Tchet Dorman is an example of multicultural ideals and practices. He has demonstrated exemplary performance in teaching, services to the community, and participation in local, regional, and national organizations. He is a practitioner and administrator whose policies and practices are well grounded in the field of multicultural education. He has been able to blend theory and practice in a manner that develops awareness, acceptance, and affirmation of diversity. 

Past Winners
1994 - Geneva Gay
1995 - National Women's History Project
1995 - Jill Christianson (Regional Award)
1996 - Rethinking Schools
1997 - Sonia Nieto
1998 - Nadine Cordova and Patsy Cordova
1999 - Deborah Batiste
1999 - Valerie Ooka Pang (Regional Award)
2000 - Mary Lou Fuller
2001 - Carl Grant (Higher Education)
2001 - Evelyn Kalibala (P-12 Education)
2002 - Josefina Villamil Tinajero
2003 - Joseph Walter Scott, University of Washington
2004 - Patricia Larke, Texas A & M University
2005 - Patty Bode, Amherst Public Schools
2006 - William A. Howe, Connecticut State Department of Education

The Rose Duhon-Sells
Multicultural Program Award

2007 Winner
English Acquisition National
Professional Development Program
Claflin University,
Orangeburg, SC
Program Chair:  Nan Li 

This multicultural program is designed to engage pre-service teachers in instruction that accelerates English Language Learners and their parents’ acquisition of English, including academic English skills, literacy, and content knowledge. The target audience for this program is mostly Hispanic immigrants who live in deplorable conditions in South Carolina. The national program, located at Claflin University for five years, is supported by the U.S Department of Education and the Black College Fund.  The program’s mission and goals exemplify multiple facets of diversity. 

Past Winners
1994 - Yakima Tribal School
1995 - Grow Your Own Teacher Project -- Wichita Public Schools
1997 - Salem-Keizer Public Schools, Oregon
1998 - California State University, San Marcos -- Middle Level Teacher Education Program
1999 - Multicultural Opportunities Branch -- Kentucky Department of Education
2000 - Prince George's County Maryland (School District)
2000 - Empire Consortium (Heritage College) (Higher Education)
2001 - The New Jersey Project
2002 - Rethinking Urban Poverty: A Philadelphia Field Project
2003 - Center for Multicultural Education, College of Education, University of Washington
2004 - University of Georgia and Clarke County School District, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA
2005 - White Bear Lake Area School District’s Diversity & Integration Program
2006 - PMAC - Principal's Multicultural Advisory Committee Program, Pinellas Co. Schools, Largo, FL

The Multicultural Children’s Publication Award

2007 Winner
Skipping Stones
An International Multicultural Magazine
Author/Editor/Publisher:  Arun Narayan Toke 

"Awakening to our global interdependence challenges us to understand and appreciate differences, realizing the potential inherent in diversity," is the thought that greets its readers, Skipping Stones offers a venue for Pre-K through grade 12 students from the world over! It involves children in networking and interaction with one another to provide a better world understanding of diversity issues.  

Past Winners
1997 - Skipping Stones Magazine -- Arun Toké
1999 - i see the rhythm -- Toyomi Igus
2000 - Dragonsong -- Russell Young
2001 - New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams -- Nancy Gruver
2003 - The Seventh Generation: Native Students Speak About Finding the Good Path -- Amy Bergstrom, Linda Miller  Cleary, and Thomas D. Peacock
2004 - Sokita Celebrates the New Year: A Cambodian American Holiday By Barbara Lau and Kris Nesbitt, Photographs by Cedric N. Chatterley,Greensboro, North Carolina: Greensboro Historical Society
2005 - Two Worlds Together In Me - Jaime DePina, Gumbo Kids, LLC
2006 - Kahani - A South Asian Literary Magazine for Children - Monika Jain, Editor

Carl A. Grant Multicultural Research Award

2007 Winner
Aretha F. Marbley
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 

Dr. Aretha Marbley’s strong scholarly efforts reflect a commitment to scholarship and the sharing of her research in many varied professional settings. In the last nine years she has made over 67 international, national, 17 regional/state, and 52 local presentations. She has 41 publications in flagship journals. Her research continues to impact educational communities through professional development workshops on counseling and diversity issues. 

Past Winners
1994 - Christine E. Sleeter
1995 - Gloria Ladson-Billings
1996 - American Association of University Women
1998 - Jeannie Oakes
1999 - Luis Moll
2001 - Robert Carter
2004 - Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Boston College
2005 - Lois Merriweather Moore, University of San Francisco

The Multicultural Media Award

2007 Winner
Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust
Author: The Anti Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation Institute,
Yad Vashem 

Since this multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust was launched in July 2005, over 3,600 educators across the country have been trained in its use. The response has been overwhelmingly positive as teachers see the materials as clearly organized, easy to implement, and of great interest to students. Educators find the materials allow for multiple entry points into serious discussions around the more far-reaching topics of discrimination, intolerance, and the role of the bystander.   

Past Winners
1996 - Different and the Same -- Family Communications
1997 - The Puzzle Place -- Lancit Media
1999 - It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School -- New Day Films, Debra Chasnoff and Helen Cohen, Producers
2000 - The Color of Fear -- Lee Mun Wah
2001 - The Multicultural Pavilion -- Paul Gorski
2002 - Oliver Button is a Star -- Dan Hunt
2002 - Native Village -- Valerie Crow and Gina Boltz
2003 - The Expanding Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature In High School -- WNET-13 and the National Council of Teachers of English
2004 - Picture Perfect, A documentary video (October 2002), Carol Tizzano, Author, Producer, Director
2005 - “As I See It” (Syndicated newspaper column in nearly 50 national newspapers) - Author:  Cynthia Tucker, editorial page editor

2007 Double Happiness
PHILIP C. CHINN BOOK AWARD

2007 Winner (Tie)
New Roots in America's Sacred Ground:
Religion, Race and Ethnicity in Indian America
Author:  Khyati Joshi
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2006 

This book is based on 41 interviews with 2nd generation East Indian Americans who were trying to navigate two worlds and bridge the cultural gap. Many insights are applicable to other immigrant and second generation groups in the US. One of the groundbreaking things this book does is focus on religion. The author shows us how we need to discuss religion in the context of multicultural education. 

2007 Winner (Tie)
The Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind:
Schooling Context, Professional Preparation and Community Politics
Authors/Editors:  Sharon P. Robinson and M. Christopher Brown II
Publisher:  Peter Lang Publishing, 2006 

This book challenges our thinking about multicultural theory and practice and contributes to a better understanding of the manner in which culture is lived out in our daily lives. This book captures lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina, and is an excellent resource for educators nationwide. It will provide a template for educational reform in the years to come! 

Past Winners
1994 - Ron Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
1995 - Russell M. Peters, Clambake
1996 - Stacey J. Lee, Unraveling the Model Minority Stereotype: Listening to Asian-American Youth
1997 - James and Cherry McGee Banks (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education
1998 - Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria and Other Conversations About Race
2000 - Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Elizabeth Radin Simons, Julie Shalhope Kalnin, Alex Casareno and the M-Class Teams, Inside City Schools: Investigating Literacy in Multicultural Classrooms
2001 - Robert Moses and Charles E. Cobb, Jr., Radical Equations
2002 - Joy L. Lei, Global Constructions of Multicultural Education: Theories and Realities
2003 - Eileen Gale Kugler, Debunking The Middle-Class Myth: Why Diverse Schools Are Good For Kids
2004 - Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching: A Resource Guide For K-12 Classrooms, Editors: Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray, Jenice L. View - A Publication of Teaching For Change and the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC)with contributions from Rethinking Schools, 2004.
2005 - Rosa Hernandez Sheets, Diversity Pedagogy: Examining the Role of Culture in the Teaching-Learning Process
2006 - Community and Difference: Teaching Pluralism and Social Justice,  Robert A. Pena, Kristen Guest & Lawrence Y. Matsuda, Eds. Peter Lang Pub. Inc. (2005)

La Mura Video Festival Award

2007 Winner
A New Day
Mary Lebo
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Agency/Institution/Corporate Award

Past Winners
1993 - Silver Burdett & Ginn
1995 - Binney & Smith, Inc.
1996 - Southern Poverty Law Center
1997 - Institute of Texan Cultures
1998 - The Smithsonian Institution -- Center for Folklife and Cultural Studies
1999 - Children's Book Press
2002 - Eastern Educational Resource Collaborative
2004 - Teaching For Change, Washington DC
2005 - Purdue Cooperative Extension Service
2006 - Texas Tech University, College of Education, Lubbock, TX

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