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$Category: Governor\'s Awards$ 34th Annual Governor’s Awards Program

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34th Annual Governor’s Awards Program

For 34 years now, the Florida Council on Economic Education (FCEE) has recognized Florida’s most outstanding teachers for their creativity in presenting lessons in economics, personal finance and entrepreneurship. Open to all K-12 teachers, the Governor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching Economics is a celebration of best practices and a way of acknowledging the innovation that teachers bring to the classroom.

At the Governor’s Awards, the FCEE will award best practices in five project based categories for elementary, middle and high school grade levels. This year the FCEE will also recognize one project applicant who is either a first year teacher or new to teaching economics as the Rookie of the Year. Project winners receive:

First Place winners for each age group in each of 5 categories: $500

Second Place winners for each age group in each of 5 categories: $200

Third Place winners for each age group in each of 5 categories: $50

As always, we will recognize one teacher as our Charles C. Harper Economic Educator of the Year. The Harper Award, which includes a $1,000 cash prize, goes to a teacher who has demonstrated leadership in financial literacy, free enterprise and economic education over a sustained period of time, with evidence of creativity and innovation in teaching these concepts at the local, state and national level.

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Unpacking the Common Core

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Unpacking the Common Core

The Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education program, Gus A. Stavros Center for Free Enterprise
and Economic Education at University of South Florida and Florida Press Educational Services are
excited to present a FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP for teachers of grades 5-12.

Free webinar for teachers (grades 5-12)
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
RSVP deadline Friday, May 17

Bring the expertise of the Stavros Center and NIE to your classroom in this online workshop.

This is the first in a series of Common Core-focused online workshops we will be
offering teachers. The focus of the first workshop is on thrift.
Space is limited; your registration will be confirmed by email. If you register
and cannot attend, please contact ordernie@tampabay.com so that someone on
the waiting list may attend.

Featured presenters:
Deborah Kozdras, Ph.D, Chief Creative Office Stavros Center
Jodi Pushkin, MA, Manager and curriculum writer Tampa Bay Times NIE

Who: All teachers welcome
What: Common Core Newspaper & Economics workshop
Where: http://connect.fcit.usf.edu/commoncorenewspaper
When: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Why: To help teachers unpack the common core

Highlights of the workshop:
• Ideas for close reading and text-dependent questions
• Strategies to read informational text
• Reading and writing ideas
• Focus on document-based questions

Register online at tampabay.com/nie. Click on Common Core workshop registration.