ILA Outstanding Educator Award Winners

Instituted in 2001, the recipient of the ILA Outstanding Educator Award is presented to an individual who is a member of ILA in good standing; is a teacher (open to all levels, including elementary, secondary and college); is knowledgeable about listening and how to teach listening; teaches listening (could be part of a course, such as language arts, communication, listening and shares knowledge and techniques for teaching listening with others through Convention presentations, publishing, teacher in-service, etc.

• Charles Veenstra (2012)
• Margarete Imhof (2011)
• Michael Purdy (2010)
• Tuula-Riitta Valikoski (2009)
• Melissa Beall, University of Northern Iowa (2008)
• Margaret Fitch-Hauser (2007)
• Richard Bommelje (2006)
• Nanette Johnson-Curiskis (2005)
• Kathy Thompson (2003)
• Mary Bozik (2002)
• Andrew D. Wolvin (2001)