HONORS AND AWARDS

• TN Education of Color Alliance- Lifetime Achievement Award 2023
• TN Teacher of the Year 2022-2023
• TN STEM Innovator Award
• Amazon Teacher of the Year, 2021
• Murray State Distinguished Alumni, 2021
• Sanford Inspire Award, 2020
• National Teacher Hall of Fame Inductee, 2020
• Harriet Sanford Award, NEA Foundation, Global Learning, 2019
• Global Teacher Prize Top 50- 2017-2018
• Maverick Teacher (2016)
• Stephen Sondheim Award (2015)
• Queen Smith Award, Council of Great City Schools, (2015)
• Henry Ford Teacher Innovator Award (2015)
• Scholastic Science Cool Teacher (2013)
• Horace Mann Award, NEA Teacher Excellence Award, (2013)
• California Causality Award, NEA Teacher Excellence Award (2012)
• NEA Foundation Global Fellowship-Brazil (2014) and South Africa (2019)
• Presidential Award for Science Teaching- 2008
• Sylvia Shugrue Award 2013
• Shell Urban Development Award- 2016