Past recipients of OCTE Excellence Award

Wilsonville, OR
Beth Camp, veteran literature and writing teacher at Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, has won the 2003 Oregon Excellence Award for Teaching English Language Arts. Sponsored by the Oregon Council of Teachers of English (OCTE), the annual statewide award presented October 4 recognizes one of Oregon’s outstanding English teachers K-16. Begun in October 2000, the program invites all Oregon teachers to nominate peers who meet two criteria: (1) at least five years of teaching at any level in any Oregon school, and (2) a particularly noteworthy record in teaching English language arts. Nominations are limited to one per school. [Read the entire article]

2001 Recipient: (presented October 11, 2002 at Wilsonville, Oregon)

MICHAEL J. WOOD, Union School District Number 5.

2001 Judges:

• Ann Staley, Lewis and Clark College,
• Chris Anderson, Oregon State University
• Beverly Chin, University of Montana, Past President, NCTE

2000 Recipients: (presented April 7, 2001 at Ashland, Oregon)

• ANN STALEY, Lewis and Clark College,
• CHRIS ANDERSON, Oregon State University
• LANCE SPARKS, Lane Community College

• Lois Barry, Eastern Oregon University
• Beverly Chin, University of Montana, Past President, NCTE
• Linda Christensen, Portland Public Schools
• Jerome Harste, Indiana University, President, NCTE
• Paul Suter, Chemeketa Community College

News release about 2000 Excellence awardees