The Peter Callaway Excellent Ozarks Educator Award

Excellent Ozarks Educator Award Offered

The Bryant Watershed Education Project has established the Ozarks Excellent Educator Award to honor Peter Callaway of Brixey. Mr. Callaway founded the Project in 1996 because he “believe(s) that students need to connect to the place they live, and to do so they need to learn about their own backyard, their local watershed."

The Excellent Ozark Educator Award is funded by an endowment that friends and supporters of Mr. Callaway’s opened at the Community Foundation of the Ozarks. Each year’s winner will receive a framed certificate and $500.

Nominations are welcomed from students, parents, administrators and fellow teachers. Nominations must be postmarked by May 7. Click here to download the nomination form.

“We’re looking for educators in the south central Missouri Ozarks who are using the practices and values in their classroom work that demonstrate what place based education is all about,” said Lois Reborne, Project Director. “Over the years, we’ve worked with so many wonderful teachers, so we certainly look forward to making this award.”

Place based education values and practices include:
Developing students' appreciation and understanding of the Ozarks
Integrating local culture, history and ecology into the curriculum
Taking students outdoors and into the community to learn
Bringing community members into the classroom as resources
Utilizing multidisciplinary and active learning approaches

Educators working at any school, public or private, located in the following school districts are eligible:

Alton, Ava, Bakersfield, Cabool, Dora, Fairview, Gainesville, Glenwood, Howell Valley, Junction Hill, Liberty Birch Tree, Mansfield, Mountain Grove, Norwood, Koshkonong, Richards, Skyline, Thayer, West Plains, Willow Springs, Winona.

For more information, or to receive a nomination form by mail, please call Lois Reborne, Project Director, 417 257 1315.