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CAEA PROFESSIONAL EDUCATOR AWARDS

CAEA annually accepts nominations from its membership for active and current CAEA members who have demonstrated
exemplary instruction in their schools and who have made an impact on those around and to our organization. Awards
are made for elementary, middle, secondary, higher education, museum, and administration art education. Furthermore,
CAEA annually selects one of its members to receive the Outstanding Visual Art Educator of the Year Award for the
State of California who is also honored each year at the National Art Education Association national convention. The
deadline for submitting nomination applications is January 1 to your Area President.

PROFESSIONAL AWARD WINNERS FOR 2011

STATE AWARDS

Kathleen Crocetti
Outstanding Visual Art Educator of the Year

" The arts are vital. They are vital to us as individual human beings, to our communities, to
our nation and to our planet. The arts encourage individuals to explore, when we try new
things and discover unexpected results this gives us confidence to explore in other areas
of our lives. This spirit of exploration, the drive to find creative solutions is at the heart of
our national strength as innovators and inventors. As the world continues to change at the
rapid rate we are experiencing, our children will need to be able to respond with new and
creative solutions to ever increasing complicated problems. This broad view benefit of the
arts does not require that every individual be an artist, rather that every individual be
exposed to artist processes. Art foster courage to explore the unknown.

As a teacher, the three most important things I can impart to students is perseverance,
courage and vision. It takes practice to get better at everything, to be very good at something we must persevere; each of us has a unique perspective on life that allows us to see things differently than anyone else. Believing in ourselves and having the courage to put our personal vision out there in the public eye is being real. I ask my students to be true to themselves, to be real."

Outstanding Visual Art Educators


Barb Purdy Secondary Level	Gini Gyorkos Middle Level	Kristen Weigand Elementary Level	Lynette Henderson Higher Education	Ron Jessee Administration/ Supervison	Sally Paul Active Retired

AREA AWARDS


Terri Murray Ruth Jansen Central Area	Ed Keesling Ruth Jansen Southern Area	Yvonne Cavanagh Douc Langur Central Area	Lee Hanson Douc Langur Northern Area	Anne Uphoff Award of Merit Southern Area

CAEA Awards Program

The CAEA Awards Program is open to all CAEA members and features both State and Area awards. The same form can be used for various awards nominations. Send completed forms to Sally Paul 30215 The Horseshoe Winters CA 95694, postmarked on or before January 1, 2012. CAEA Awards Criteria CAEA Professional Awards Nomination form To fill out the form digitally, use this Word version. CAEA Awards Nomination Form (Free Acrobat Reader is required for viewing and printing pdf documents.)

TWO NEW AWARDS ADDED FOR 2012!

Two new awards have been added for 2012" Special Needs Art Visual Art Educator and Rookie of the Year. Criteria for these awards can be found above on the CAEA Awards Criteria.

For additional information or questions, contact Sally Paul, CAEA Professional Awards Chair

NAEA Awards Program

The NAEA Awards program is open to all NAEA members. Growing in scope since its inception, the program features awards ranging from the state, to regional and national levels, and continues to add new awards. The 2012 NAEA Awards Program Booklet contains details and nomination materials for over 100 awards. Additional information can also be found at www.arteducators.org/awards. The deadline for submitting nominations for most awards is October 1 of each year.

Have a question about NAEA awards? E-mail awards@arteducators.org