Excellence Awards Dinner
Slated for May 18

Los Angeles Educational Partnership Excellence Awards winners will be honored at an awards dinner May 18.

The Excellence Awards recognize exemplary educators, schools, and communities that demonstrate a measurable impact on student achievement with awards of up to $10,000. Through a major grant from the Ahmanson Foundation, the Awards are offered to teachers, schools and school and family collaboratives.

The awards recognition dinner at Los Angeles' Inter-Continental Hotel will honor educators, school administrators and parents who demonstrated exemplary educational practices in pre-K through 12th grade.

"Our hope is that the Excellence Awards will help to create understanding about the importance of excellence in public education," said Dr. Judy Johnson, Los Angeles Educational Partnership vice president, herself a veteran educator. "Excellence is not a luxury for the city of Los Angeles or an offering to be made only to a few lucky students. Instead, excellence should be viewed as this city's most important priority -- essential to the personal well-being of all children and crucial to the civic and economic growth of our community."

Teams of teachers, schools and communities will be selected for the awards from nearly 100 applications from teachers, schools and communities in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Recipients of the Excellence in Education Awards are selected based on their proven effectiveness with students and the excellent practices used in the classroom, at the school site, or in the community. Award winners are selected from those applicants who best exemplified the California Standards for the Teaching Profession and could document student progress and achievement. A screening committee of educators and community members chose finalists from the applicants, and all sites are visited by a member of the screening committee.

	Related Links Read Dr. Judy Johnson's remarks at last year's Excellence Awards Banquet

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