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 

2008 Winner
Enid Lee
Enidlee Consultants, Inc.

Enid Lee began her career as a classroom teacher 35 years ago. She is well known for her anti-racism work with schools all over the United States and Canada. A virtual scholar with Teaching for Change, Enid has devoted her life to promoting multicultural education from an anti-racist perspective. She has written extensively and edited the best-selling "Beyond Heroes and Holidays: Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist Multicultural Education and Staff Development". She developed the equity-centered professional development for educators, including "Putting Race on the Table" which embodies the essence of her work. Her website www.enidlee.com includes valuable resources for educators and parents.

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
2007 - Tchet Dereic Dorman, Temple University

The Rose Duhon-Sells
Multicultural Program Award

2008 Winner
Exploring the Indigenous Ways of Knowing of the Ojibwe
Bruce D. Martin
Penn State University

"Exploring the Indigenous Ways of Knowing of the Ojibwe" is a survey course developed by Bruce Martin. The course is designed to cultivate understanding and appreciation of the world-view of the Ojibwe, one of the largest aboriginal communities in North America. It helps students think critically about their own history and culture, and identify assumptions and values that shape their own world-views while introducing them to philosophies of indigenous people. Martin teaches this five seminar course through the Outreach Office in the College of Liberal Arts at Penn State University.

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
2007 - English Acquisition National, Claflin University

The Multicultural Children’s Publication Award

2008 Winner
Why Monkeys Live in Trees & Other Stories from Benin
Author: Raouf Mama
Publisher: Curbstone Press, 2006

Raouf Mama is a professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University. His latest book, "Why Monkeys Live in Trees and Other Stories from Benin" is one of four books he has published which utilizes the oral tradition of folk tales from his native Benin to expand the mind of readers of all ages to appreciate the similarities in cultural values between Benin and the United States. Over the past fifteen years Mama's teaching, writing, and storytelling activities have helped to clarify the connections between multicultural issues at the individual level, as well as those in schools, community, and the broader society.

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
2007 - Skipping Stones - An International Multicultural Magazine - Arun Narayan Toke 

Carl A. Grant Multicultural Research Award

2008 Winner
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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
2007 - Aretha F. Marbley, Texas Tech University

The Multicultural Media Award

2008 Winner
www.EdChange.org
Paul Gorski
George Mason University

Paul Gorski is an assistant professor of Integrative and Interdisciplinary Studies in George Mason University's New Century College. He created and continues to maintain EdChange.org and the Multicultural Pavilion, web sites providing valuable resources and perspective on multicultural education. He has been an active consultant for ten years, conducting workshops and providing guidance to schools and community organizations committed to equity and diversity, in addition to his teaching responsibilities.

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

PHILIP C. CHINN BOOK AWARD

2008 Winner
Black Ants and Buddhists
Author: Mary Cowhey
Publisher: Reuters University Press, 2006

In "Black Ants and Buddhists" Ms. Cowhey challenges the commonly held misconception that social justice issues can only be tackled by secondary school and college level teachers and students. Her stories spring directly from her classroom practice to illustrate the power of first and second graders who are engaged in civic and political issues that effect their lives. This book brings multicultural theory to life!

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)
2007 - Double Happiness (dual winners)
------- New Roots in America's Sacred Ground: Religion, Race and Ethnicity in Indian America, Khyati Joshi, Rutgers University Press, 2006 
------- The Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: Schooling Context, Professional Preparation and Community Politics, Sharon P. Robinson and M. Christopher Brown II, Peter Lang Publishing, 2006 

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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