NLP Annual Report FY20 - Flipbook - Page 10
2020 awards:
NLP honors educator,
journalist and student
In recognition of their
outstanding achievements
during the 2019-20 school
year, NLP named the
recipients of its 2020
educator, journalist and
student of the year awards
in June.
Honorees are recognized as having
distinguished themselves in their
commitment to news literacy in their
classrooms, in their professions and in their
daily lives. The awards also acknowledge
their efforts as leading voices in support
of news literacy education. Recipients are
selected by a committee of NLP board
members and staff.
Click below to watch the presentation
of all 2020 awards on our website.
EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR
Patricia Hunt
Virginia educator Patricia Hunt was named
NLP’s inaugural Educator of the Year in
recognition of the dedication and innovation
she brings to her teaching of news literacy, and
for her advocacy of news literacy education.
Hunt, who teaches 12th grade government at
Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., first
learned about NLP from a Maryland colleague
in 2011, before NLP’s classroom program
was active in Virginia. Hunt borrowed the NLP
classroom guide from her colleague to use in
her classroom.
Soon after Hunt began using Checkology, NPR
visited her classroom and made it the focus
of this piece, The Classroom Where Fake News
Fails. Hunt has also hosted classroom visits
from several other news outlets. These include
CNN.com; ABC News.com; HBO; WRC-TV; NHK,
Japan’s public television station, and Czech
public television.
“My goal as an educator is to give students
the tools that they need to become lifelong
learners,” Hunt said. “My hope would be for
them to continue listening to the news, to
continue checking their news feed against other
news feeds, to stop and pause before sharing.
Checkology is the best tool I’ve found to meet
that goal.”
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