Five Characteristics of a Broward County Arts Teacher of the Year:
Vision, Optimism, Compassion, Creative Nurturer, and Courage. 

The Broward County Arts Teacher of the Year Award is a very successful program in its 22nd year. Created by the Broward County Cultural Division in 1985, it annually recognizes a most outstanding arts teacher in Broward County schools. It is the County’s unique way of honoring a very special person, in a very significant role in the community. The Arts Teacher of the Year Award is the only program of its kind in the United States.

“This award and the Arts Education program that facilitates it, is important for Broward County as it salutes an important fabric of the community,” says Mary A. Becht, director Cultural Division. “It gives credence to arts in education, and acknowledges some of the many un-sung heroes in the school System.”
 

Application Process

Click to download:  2008 Nomination Form & Instructions (pdf)

Who is eligible?
Teachers whose primary assignment is an arts discipline (including drama, music, visual arts, media arts)

Benefits:

∙ Public Recognition for having a positive and life changing impact on some of the  children of Broward County
∙ Gala Awards Ceremony at The Broward Center for the Performing Arts
∙ Tiffany Crystal Apple
∙ Gifts from cultural organizations and businesses totaling $7,500.
∙ Inscribed brick on Riverwalk
∙ Honored with a County Proclamation with a day named after the recipient

Requirements:

∙ Letter from principal nominating the teacher
∙ Completed application submitted by 5:00 pm, December 13, 2007
∙ Teaching schedule for January 2008 for classroom observation by the judges
∙ Application to include (in essay format)
- Views on education
- Commitment to teaching as a position
- Connecting the classroom to the ‘real world’
- Support materials (up to five photographs/digital images); one cassette or video 3 – 5 minutes; programs, press clippings etc.)

 

Application Deadline

2008 date/time to-be-announced

Patricia Zeiler
Broward Cultural Division
100 S. Andrews Ave.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
954-357-7463
954-357-5769 Fax
pzeiler@broward.org

 

Application Workshop

2008 date/time to-be-announced

ArtServe Inc.
1350 East Sunrise Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale

Presenters: 2005 Arts Teacher of the Year Mary Cavioli and Executive Director Gold Coast Jazz Pam Dearden