Kendra Naef, CFCS, a ancestors and chump sciences abecedary and AAFCS member, accustomed the celebrated Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award in acceptance of her outstanding teaching methods and able leadership. In addition, Naef will accept an complete $25,000 banknote accolade during the anniversary Milken National Education Conference, a able development appointment appointed for Washington, DC in the bounce of 2006.
Alexandria, VA -- Kendra Naef, CFCS, a ancestors and chump sciences abecedary from Kimberly High School, Kimberly, Wisconsin, and a affiliate of the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) has accustomed the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award. In accession to able recognition, Ms. Naef will accept an complete banknote accolade of $25,000. Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia alternate in the accolade antagonism this year.
First awarded in 1987, the Milken National Educator Award has accustomed over 2,100 outstanding kindergarten-through-12th-grade educators. Up to 100 educators could be called for 2005-2006 Milken Awards.
The goals of the Milken Awards are to account and accolade outstanding K-12 educators for the above of their teaching, their able leadership, their assurance with families and the community, and their abeyant for even greater contributions to the advantageous development of children.
Naef, who began teaching at Kimberly High School in 2000, area her teaching in bookish standards and employs advisory practices that circumduct about analytical appraisal and apprentice self-assessment. Students convenance action-based analysis which helps them advance a college accommodation for absolute work.
“Kendra is a abstracted baton who has the adeptness to admit the charge for a affairs and again actualize a band-aid that allowances both acceptance and the community. She inspires her colleagues to strive for excellence,” said Kimberly High School Principal Mike Rietveld.
Naef, who leads the four-member Family and Consumer Sciences Department at Kimberly High, has developed a class for her 9th through 12th brand acceptance that focuses on animal sciences and aboriginal adolescence development.
A Partners Program she developed pairs cognitively disabled and approved apprenticeship students, application team-building contest to coin a able band and faculty of brotherhood a allotment of acceptance to abutment both bookish and adorning learning. She afresh becoming a admission for a new administration program.
Wisconsin State Superintendent of Schools Elizabeth Burmaster and Wisconsin First Lady Jessica Doyle led a Kimberly High School accumulation in presenting the accolade to Naef. Unlike a lot of teaching awards, the Milken Educator Awards accept no academic choice or appliance process. Educators are recommended for this celebrated account after their ability by a blue-ribbon console appointed by anniversary state’s administration of education.
Active on abundant accompaniment and bounded committees and as a branch presenter, Naef accustomed the 2004 New Achiever Award from AAFCS. She is currently advancing her Ph.D. with a circumstantial M.S. in Family and Consumer Sciences Education at the Iowa State University. Naef becoming her B.S. from the University of Wisconsin—Stout in 1999.
Milken Award recipients will accept their accolade checks at the anniversary Milken National Education Conference, a able development appointment appointed for Washington, DC in the bounce of 2006.
About AAFCS
Founded in 1909, AAFCS is the alone not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) alignment committed to bringing humans calm to advance the lives of individuals, families, and communities. AAFCS’ added than 9,000 associates are elementary, secondary, and post-secondary educators, researchers, and administrators, accommodating addendum educators, and added professionals in business and industry, not-for-profit organizations, and government. These professionals develop, integrate, and accommodate applied ability about LifeSkills—financial literacy; adolescent affliction and parenting; battle resolution; chump education; apartment and environment; accoutrement and textiles; and dietetics and nutrition.
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