Sometimes during the publishing process, we find we must trim some of our Reports stories to fit the alloted space in print. This was the case for “NSTA Awardees: Creative, Committed, and Caring” from our March 2010 issue. The good news is our online outlets allow us to share everything with you—no trimming necessary!
With that in mind, meet three 2010 NSTA Teacher Awardees whose work we had wanted to highlight in the March piece. (And learn more about NSTA’s Teacher Awards here. You too could be in print or online in 2011!)

Robert H. Carleton Award

Arthur Eisenkraft, Distinguished Professor of Science Education
University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
2000–2001 NSTA President Arthur Eisenkraft co-created three NSTA recognition programs: the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards, the Duracell Scholarship Competition, and the Toyota TAPESTRY Grants for Teachers. Not only have these programs “benefitted thousands of teachers and students,” but they also “brought recognition and financial gain to NSTA,” observes 2001–2002 NSTA President and nominator Harold Pratt.
Eisenkraft’s service to the profession includes helping to develop the National Science Education Standards, creating the Active Physics and Active Chemistry curricula, and working on the committee to develop the National Assessment of Educational Progress for the years 2009–2019.

Shell Science Teaching Award

Tamica Stubbs, Biology and Research Teacher
E.E. Waddell High School, Charlotte, North Carolina
One of Stubbs’s students says, “She has taught me biology, AP biology, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and biomolecular modeling via proteins—but more than that, she has taught me what it means to have a teacher [who] believes in her students and will do anything in her power to help them succeed.”
Stubbs has established science clubs and mentored students in projects that led to her school entering district, state, and county competitions. Her grant writing skills and community networking activities have brought a range of new equipment to her classroom, inspiring even students disinterested in science to become researchers and investigators.

Bio-Rad Biotechnology Explorer Award

(New Award for 2010)
Jennifer Hand, Science Teacher
Cairo High School, Cairo, Georgia
With funds from a local grant, Hand incorporated biotechnology into her classroom using Bio-Rad’s Crime Scene Investigator kits and DNA fingerprinting equipment. She enlisted the help of a molecular geneticist to train her and her colleagues in using the equipment and doing the fingerprinting. As a result, she says, more of her students at all levels are passing the science portion of the high school graduation exam, and they look forward to their science classes “instead of dreading the doldrums of yet another worksheet.”
One of her students remarked, “I see this kind of stuff on television, so to be able to do this in my 10th-grade biology class was awesome.”
Read about the other 2010 awardees.