Educator of the Year Award

Nomination Deadline: April 30th

IWLA EOY RUBRIC.pdf

Award Nomination Criteria

Please nominate a person whom you believe exemplifies the best in teaching at his/her particular level and who has provided outstanding service to the profession in the state of Iowa and to the IWLA.

Service to the IWLA may be in the form of, but not limited to, presentations to IWLA or subgroups thereof, such as Outreach workshops; support groups; service on the Board, Advisory Council, or on IWLA committees; sharing results of grantwork; articles contributed to the IWLA Bulletin; and other such contributions.

Recipients are selected on these criteria alone.  No consideration is given to the candidate’s language specialization.

You may not nominate yourself.

Please note that past recipients are not eligible to receive the Educator of the Year, but that they may be eligible for the Outstanding Service Award.

Past recipients of this award are not eligible. These outstanding educators include:
Jim Becker, Lydia Ruiz, Marcia Rosenbusch, Nile Vernon, Anne Volkman, Donna Grunstad, James Graham, Sandy Nyhus, Shelly Winters, Magdalene Mujica-Voy, MichaelOates, Barbara Maitland, Toni Baugher, Walter Chatfield, Janine Shelley, Barbara Peterson, Dedi Walker, Rosemarie VanDyk, Patricia Westphal, Janet Brown Lowe, Evelyn Bress, Joan Pace, Joan Lewis, Jacques Dubois, Lieselotte Ritter, Jane Klaver, Linda Wilson, Ana Peck, Cheryl Voelliger, Connie Smith, Tom Dougless, Jurgen
Koppensteiner, Russ Freerking, Alicia Van Bergen, Denise Murray, Nelle Hutter, Heidi Galer, Jeanette Borich, Sally Clute, Donna Van Bodegraven, Eunice Van Tuyl, Holly
Kaptain, Kerisa Baedke,Mercia Foster, Paris Sangrene, Trish Colburn, Larry Pace, Joye Lore-Larson, Lowell Hoeft, Hildegard (Pochy) Morales, Jere Brands, Moira
McCluney, Tatiana Spektor, William Hemmes, Shelly Power, Tammy Dann, Steve Christianson, Dawn Frye, Wade Petersen, Patricia Calkins, Kay Wells, Lindsey Rice
Cornwell, Susan Sandholm-Petersen, Beth Vanderwilt, Terri Gebel, Anna Marasco, Dawn Bratsch-Prince, Sara Blanco, Elizabeth Zwanziger Page, Coralie Turner, Lisa
Sobotka, Anne Lair, Candace Sherwood, Jean-Pierre Taoutel, Jim Gerrans, Regina Schantz, Julie Wilhelm.

Please note that not all categories may be awarded each year.