Elevating Student and Family Voices

Honored Schools is a new program from Honored aimed at recognizing great teachers, elevating student voices, and creating a consistent culture of teacher appreciation within school communities.

The Program

Through the Honored Schools online platform, students (and parents on behalf of younger students) within each participating school community are encouraged to recognize teachers by telling a story of how the teacher made a difference in their life. Every teacher who is recognized will receive their student’s story and will be publicly recognized at their school and on the Honored Schools website. Also, each recognition story serves as a nomination for the annual Honored Schools Life-Changing Teacher Award.

Our Schools

For the 2021-2022 school year, Honored Schools has partnered with eight schools in Washington, DC:

ALICE DEAL MIDDLE SCHOOL

District of Columbia
Public Schools

Barndard Elementary School

BARNARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

District of Columbia
Public Schools

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS EDUCATION CAMPUS

District of Columbia
Public Schools

Ida B. Wells Middle School

IDA B. WELLS MIDDLE SCHOOL

District of Columbia
Public Schools

MARIE REED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

District of Columbia
Public Schools

POWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

District of Columbia
Public Schools

RANDLE HIGHLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

District of Columbia
Public Schools

WHITTIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

District of Columbia
Public Schools

In June 2022, Honored Schools will name the Life-Changing Teacher Award recipient from the pool of recognition stories submitted from these schools.

The Award

At the end of each school year, one teacher from the participating region will receive the prestigious Honored Schools Life-Changing Teacher Award, which includes $5,000 and national recognition. Award recipients will be selected from each region’s pool of submissions by Honored’s national panel of teachers and students, in consultation with Honored Schools principals. The selection criteria focuses on the important impact — personal, academic, and/or inspirational — the teacher has made on their students’ lives.

Our Team

Honored Schools is a new program from Honored, a national leader in teacher recognition.

Brooklyn
Batey

Senior Director of Programs and Partnerships

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“Mr. Pritchard was my math teacher but taught me so much more than that. Through his actions, he taught me empathy, justice, and integrity. He used math as a way to describe equity and equality throughout the world. He not only taught me how to excel in the classroom but how to excel on the field, in my friendships, and within my community.”

Brooklyn began her work in education as an 8th grade English teacher in Denver, Colorado. Motivated by teacher voice and the strong impact teachers have on student academic success and social and emotional development, she spent her summers working in the offices of State and US senators advocating for bipartisan ways to uplift teacher recruitment and retention efforts. Most recently she worked at EducationCounsel in Washington, DC, where she engaged with various stakeholders in organizations at the local, state, and federal level. Brooklyn graduated from the University of Denver in 2016 with a BA in Psychology and Socio-Legal Studies. She graduated from Relay Graduate School of Education in 2018 with a Master’s in Teaching and most recently received her Master’s in Education Policy and Advocacy from Georgetown University.

Is your school or district interested in participating in Honored Schools?
Reach out to brooklyn@honoredschools.org

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