PR - The National Council for
Geographic Education (NCGE), which works to enhance the status and quality of
geography teaching and learning, is recognizing ESRI staff George Dailey and
Angela Lee with the Distinguished
Teaching Achievement (DTA) award. Dailey and Lee are part of
the education program at ESRI, the worldwide leader in geographic information
system (GIS) technology. They will receive their awards at NCGE's annual
conference, being held October 9–12, 2008, in Dearborn, Michigan, at the
Hyatt Regency Dearborn.
"Both George and Angela have a long
history of providing excellent professional support to geography educators
working to incorporate GIS into their classrooms," said Kimberly Crews,
executive director, NCGE, "and NCGE has a long history of honoring those
educators who support geography education."
Every year, the NCGE College, University, and K–12
DTA awards recognize outstanding geography teaching in institutions and
communities throughout the United States and Canada including U.S. Department
of Defense schools abroad. Dailey and Lee will receive their awards in the
category of Informal, Community, and Professional. Out of the five possible
areas, this category honors educators whose achievements may impact learners at
more than one educational level, or whose contributions fall outside
traditional education venues such as educators employed by businesses,
government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.
"I'm deeply honored by NCGE for this
award," said Dailey, K–12 Education Program manager, ESRI, who has
been working with the geography education community since the mid-1980s.
"It has been exciting to help facilitate teachers, students, and others in
becoming GIS savvy, but most importantly in becoming better geographic thinkers
and advocates. The ongoing strides that NCGE, its constituents, and the
geography education community make to advance spatial literacy go to the core
of our present and future. I'm happy to help support that mission."
Each DTA recipient will receive a plaque at
the 2008
NCGE National Conference on Geography Education,
free registration for the event, and a one-year membership in NCGE. NCGE,
founded in 1915, has approximately 2,000 members and is today's premier
professional geography education association in North America.
"I'm very grateful to NCGE," said
Angela Lee, libraries and museums program manager, ESRI. "Cultivating an
appreciation and understanding of geography is critical in this increasingly
globalized society, and NCGE has done great work to expand geographic
education. Helping to create materials that facilitate GIS use and geographic
thinking in education has been very rewarding, and I'm pleased to help support
NCGE's goals."
Additionally, NCGE is recognizing ESRI's new
Our World GIS Education book series with the Geography Excellence
in Media (GEM) award. The GEM awards committee chooses from all
nominated forms of noncommercial and commercial media published from 2006 to
2008 that exhibit outstanding geographic content or teaching methods and may
include Web sites, CD-ROMs, videos, software, television documentaries, films,
slide sets, books, and articles. The award is based on the quality and impact
of the productions in advancing the learning and teaching of geography for any age
group. ESRI also received a GEM award for its first edition of Mapping Our
World: GIS Lessons for Educators.
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