2009 Winner
Lincoln (NE) Public School
Multicultural Office
Thomas Christie, Director
For almost 20 years, the Lincoln Public School’s Multicultural Education Program has provided essential multicultural services and diversity institutes at the local, statewide, and national levels. Thomas Christie, Director of Multicultural Educations Programs believes that multicultural education goes far beyond the holidays, celebrations, and heroes that many classroom teachers highlight at special times of the year. Thomas has always demonstrated that multicultural education is an extension of one’s lived experiences.
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