Teaching Tolerance's newest multimedia teaching kit, Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks, recently received the 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award for Instructional Material from the Association of Educational Publishers (EdPress). The recognition is one of the highest honors in the field of educational publishing.
The award comes on the heels of Mighty Times' 2002 Oscar nomination and its recent first place "Golden Camera" award from the U.S. International Film and Video Festival.
Teaching Tolerance's acclaimed semi-annual magazine also garnered finalist status in three other categories this year.
Teaching Tolerance articles that reached finalist status for the Distinguished Achievement Award were "A Teacher Without Borders" from the Fall 2002 issue for Best Editorial; "A Fragile Peace" from the same issue for Best Feature Article; and "The World Was Silent" from the same issue for Best Article Design.
The new Mix It Up youth activism initiative, a collaborative project between Teaching Tolerance and the Center's Web-based activism project, Tolerance.org, was also nominated for the new Beacon Award for Best Integrated Marketing Campaign.
Cynthia Pon, Teaching Tolerance research editor, represented the Center at the awards ceremony at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on June 4.
"It was very rewarding to see our work honored along with some of the best in the field," Pon said. "These awards are a recognition of the high quality and impact of our free educational products."
Since 1895, EdPress, a national nonprofit organization for educational publishers, has fostered excellence through professional development and recognition programs. Its annual awards ceremony has honored the best in supplemental educational publishing for 40 years.
Education award is top honor
Those honored for the EdPress Distinguished Achievement Award set the industry standard to which others aspire. All entries, received from companies and organizations nationwide, first go through a demanding screening process.
From these entries, a final judging panel may pick up to four finalists per category. Judging panels are drawn from a national pool of writing, publishing and design experts in print and technology; education writers; educators, and curriculum experts.
Teaching Tolerance has won several Distinguished Achievement Awards in the past for articles, editorials, design, texts and video-and-text kits. In 1995, Teaching Tolerance magazine received EdPress' top honor, the Golden Lamp Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism.
SPLC Report
June 2003
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