Seven IRA members named State Teachers of the Year

 Seven IRA members are among the educators named as 2007 State Teachers of the Year as part of the National Teacher of the Year project, which is coordinated by the Council of Chief State School Officers and supported by ING. These teachers now become eligible for consideration as National Teacher of the Year. That person will be named in the spring of 2007. This year’s IRA State Teachers of the Year are as follows:

California—Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Delaware—Caridad Alonso
Iowa—Jan Keese
New York—Marguerite D. Izzo
North Dakota—Marlene Srock
Vermont—Kathleen Sullivan
Wisconsin—Terry Lee Kaldhusdal

IRA congratulates these members on this honor and wishes them luck in the next stage of the process. Watch upcoming issues of Reading Today for updates on the process and for further information about the work of some of these individuals. For further information about the National Teacher of the Year project, visit the following page on the Council of Chief State School Officers website.