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The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards: Seven Teachers from Across the U.S. Receive National Award for Excellence in Program’s Third Year
The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards: Seven Teachers from Across the U.S. Receive National Award for Excellence in Program’s Third Year
By Jason Cocovinis on March 22, 2013
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The six teachers are: Nancy Barile of Revere, Massachusetts; Denney Daetz of Meadow Vista, California; Amy Dunaway-Haney of Dayton, Ohio; Langston Fitzgerald of State College, Pennsylvania; Cheryl Foster of Wakefield, Rhode Island; and Mike Sinclair of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
In many people's lives there is at least one teacher who inspired and helped them become who they are today. Although the range of subjects and grades taught vary widely, these teachers have one thing in common: each has overwhelmingly impacted his or her students’ lives and encouraged them to reach their potential. Quotes from nomination essays include: “Denney’s out-of-the-box passion created in me a thirst to see the world...”, “When I walked into room 212 on the first day of school, I had no idea how much my life would change...,” “...this day had been made possible by the unrelenting commitment of a single, transformative teacher....”
“Teachers define us,” stated Stephen Sondheim. “In our early years, when we are still being formed, they often see in us more than we see in ourselves, more even than our families see and, as a result, help us to evolve into what we ultimately become. Good teachers are touchstones to paths of achieving more than we might have otherwise accomplished, in directions we might not have gone.”
“The Kennedy Center works with thousands of teachers and millions of students across the United States each year and we see first-hand how powerful the impact of a single teacher can be on the lives of his or her students,” stated Darrell M. Ayers, the Kennedy Center’s Vice President of Education. “We are proud to administer such a meaningful award in the name of one of the greatest artists of our time.”
Noted composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim frequently attributes his success to the teachers in his life. The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards are presented each year on Sondheim’s birthday—March 22—to a select group of teachers, kindergarten through college, who are nominated via the Kennedy Center website at (kennedy-center.org/sondheimteacherawards). Nominators must be at least 18 years of age and have been a student of the nominee. Teacher nominees must teach or have taught in a K-12 school, college, or university in the United States. Teachers of all grade levels and subject areas are eligible. A panel of judges reviewed a pool of nominations and selected the recipients based on the power and quality of the nomination from their former students.
Winner of the Special Tony Award® for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, Stephen Sondheim has received more Tonys® than any other composer. Mr. Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics for Saturday Night, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, The Frogs, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park With George (for which he received a Pulitzer Prize), Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion and Road Show, as well as lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy and Do I Hear a Waltz? and additional lyrics for Candide. Revues of his work include Sondheim on Sondheim, Side by Side by Sondheim, Marry Me a Little, You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow, and Putting It Together. For films and television, he composed the scores of Stavisky and Reds and wrote songs for Dick Tracy, for which he received an Academy Award® and Evening Primrose. He also received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1993. Mr. Sondheim is on the Council of the Dramatists Guild, having served as its president from 1973 to 1981.
To learn more about the Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards, please visit kennedy-center.org/sondheimteacherawards.
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