LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The
National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), together with
long-time partner Toyota, seeks out the nation's most exemplary
teachers that engage families in education.
The Toyota Family Teacher of the Year Award celebrates teachers
who are dedicated to including more than one generation in the
educational process. An exemplary educator's school or program will
receive a $20,000 prize to further
efforts to engage families in learning together and join an elite
group of educators across the country that have been recognized as
such for nearly two decades.
Every nominee will represent success stories of bringing
families into the learning process, and NCFL and Toyota will
recognize a second prize winner with a $2,500 prize. Both grand prize and second
place winners will be announced in March at the 2015 Families
Learning Summit, where proponents of education at every age will
gather in Houston to further their
collective mission of nurturing the spirit of continuous and
intergenerational learning that drives individual, family and
community success. This year's Toyota Family Teacher of the Year
will join an exciting lineup of education luminaries on the summit
stage, including Neil Bush, chairman
of the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation, and Leland Melvin, co-chair of the White House STEM
council.
Eligible family educators:
- Are exceptional at engaging families in their school or
community-based organization
- Use and champion innovative intergenerational approaches to
help parents and children learn together
- Have a demonstrated record of success
- Have exciting ideas to expand and strengthen their family
engagement efforts
- Serve communities and families with high literacy and
socioeconomic needs
- Would be successful at communicating learnings and best
practices to educators and families across the nation
How to apply:
To recognize an educator's outstanding
role in engaging parents and students positively in education
within a school or community-based program, nominate them online
here.
About Toyota Family Teacher of the Year
Since 1991,
Toyota and NCFL have forged successful programs to promote family
literacy in the United States.
Today, the Toyota/NCFL partnership accounts for 261 family literacy
sites in 52 communities and 30 states. As part of this partnership,
the Toyota Family Teacher of the Year award has been presented
annually since 1997 and recognizes individual teachers'
contributions to engaging families in education. Additional
information on Toyota's commitment to improving education
nationwide is available at
www.toyota.com/about/our_commitment/philanthropy/education.
About the National Center for Families Learning
The
National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) is a national
nonprofit organization dedicated to helping adults and children
learn together. NCFL creates and deploys innovative programs and
strategies that support learning, literacy, and family engagement
in education. From the classroom to the community to the digital
frontier, NCFL collaborates with educators, advocates, and
policy-makers to help families construct hotspots for learning
wherever they go. For more information on NCFL's 25-year track
record, visit www.familieslearning.org.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM), the world's top
automaker and creator of the Prius, is committed to building
vehicles for the way people live through its Toyota,
Lexus and Scion brands. Over the past 50 years, Toyota
has built more than 25 million cars and trucks in North America, where it operates 14
manufacturing plants and directly employs more than 40,000
people. The company's 1,800 North American dealerships sold
more than 2.5 million cars and trucks in 2013 – and about 80
percent of all Toyota vehicles sold over the past 20 years are
still on the road today. For more information about Toyota,
visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.
SOURCE National Center for Families Learning