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2018 New Orleans Excellence in Teaching Award Winners Chiante Cunningham Harriet Tubman Charter School Katharine Goforth Cohen College Prep Stephen Goodly, Sr. Warren Easton Charter High School Kenneth Johnson Arthur Ashe Charter School Adam Kohler KIPP Booker T.Washington Ingrid Rachal Mary McLeod Bethune Camille Zaunbrecher George Washington Carver High School
Finalists Ashley Abbott Akili Academy of New Orleans Jeff Carver New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School Annie Davids Phillis Wheatley Community School Katherine Griesberger KIPP Believe College Prep (Dunbar) Eboni Jaggers Renew Cultural Arts Academy Robert McGriff Lake Area New Technology Early College High School Julia Miller Audubon Charter School Jestin Moorehead Morris Jeff Community School Elaine Pritchett Cypress Academy Nia Smith Eleanor McMain Secondary
AUGUST 2019 HONOREE
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Lou Bernieri
hen Lou Bernieri first took a teaching job at Phillips Academy Andover, in Andover, Massachusetts, he was in for an incredible culture shock. Hailing from Bensonhurst, a working-class section of Brooklyn, he had been a scholarship student at Poly Prep, in Brooklyn, and then played football at Harvard, where he had also received a scholarship. His working-class upbringing seemed a far cry from the hallowed halls of Andover. “I didn’t even think I’d make it to year three,” he said. But he has thrived at Andover for 42 years and counting. In addition to teaching English to precocious Andover students, the school also allowed him to develop and to nurture the Andover Bread Loaf program. The effort works with students There’s this quote by and teachers from Frederick Douglass: ‘It underserved communities is easier to build strong and uses writing and acting as tools to children than to repair engage, empowering broken men.’ That is them for leadership roles really what I feel is so at home and throughout special about Lou. I feel the country. Bernieri’s former like he’s helping to raise student, Colleen Cronin, strong children.” nominated him to be COLLEEN CRONIN honored because of his encouragement to embrace her idiosyncrasies and allowing her to thrive intellectually during her difficult adjustment to life at Andover. Cronin says, “There’s this quote by Frederick Douglass: ‘It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.’ That is really what I feel is so special about Lou. I feel like he’s helping to raise strong children.” Visit honored.org to read Lou Bernieri’s full story.
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