Honors & Awards

AWARDS FOR TEACHING

• Teacher of the Year (College Teaching), Georgia Council of Teachers of English, an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English (2012)
• Sponsor of Literacy Award, Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project (affiliate of the National Writing Project) (2009)
• Induction into Emory University’s Barkley Forum (1990)
• Presidential Citation, Outstanding Educator, The Governor’s School of Virginia (1989)
• Coaches Award, Coach Champion, Prose Reading, National Speech Tournament, National Forensics League (1989)
• All-Star Forensics Coach of the Year, Virginia (1989)
• R.C. Simonini Award for Outstanding Student Teaching, Longwood College (1986)
• Richard A. Meade Outstanding Student Teacher Award, Virginia Association of Teachers of English (1986)

FELLOWSHIPS & RELATED ACADEMIC AWARDS

• Selected as fellow for Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program, sponsored by the State of Georgia and the Institute for Higher Education, University of Georgia (2011-12)

  

• Selected as fellow in the Institute for Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts, sponsored by Emory University (2011, 2012)
• Fellow, National Writing Project Directors Retreat (2004)
• Fellow, National Writing Project Professional Writing Retreat (2004)
• Graduate Fellow (one of four, university-wide), Teaching Resource Center, University of Virginia (2002)
• Richard A. Meade Award for Outstanding Doctoral Candidate in English Education, University of Virginia (2002)
• Herman Spivey Graduate Fellowship, University of Tennessee (1995)
• Hilton A. Smith Graduate Fellowship, University of Tennessee (1994)
• Tennessee Collaborative Teaching Fellowship (1994)
• Resource Consulting Teacher Fellowship, The College of William and Mary (1991)
• Induction into Emory University’s Barkley Forum (1990)
• Representative Dan Daniel Award for Scholarship and Citizenship, Longwood College (1986)
• Helen Warriner-Burke Humanities Award, Longwood College (1986)
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Fellowship (1985)
• English Education Scholarship (four-year, full-tuition scholarship for undergraduate studies), Longwood College (1982-86)

AWARDS FOR MY STUDENTS (AS SPEECH & DEBATE COACH)

• United States Champion in Prose, National Forensics League
• First Place, One-Act Play Competition, Virginia Association of Academies
• Best Actor, Best Actress Awards, Virginia Association of Academies
• National Qualifiers in Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Duet Acting, Oratory, Poetry, and Prose, Catholic Forensics League
• Numerous individual awards and First Place Team Awards for acting and performance