Salute to Excellence in Education Videos
It was the first $1 million Salute — the first time since the St. Louis American Foundation produced its inaugural Salute to Excellence in Education gala in 1994 that the foundation and its partners and sponsors crested the $1 million mark in student scholarships and educator grants.
As a secondary English Language Arts Curriculum coach, Tamara Wells oversees the educational programming of six middle schools and three high schools in the Hazelwood School District. Her position focuses heavily on classroom observations and data-driven research in order to create curriculu…
Special education teacher Rhea M. Willis has spent her 31-year teaching career serving the needs of students in St. Louis County Special Education District and in St. Louis Public Schools, as a plan consultant teacher and a professional development instructor.
Reverend Raymond K. Robinson’s years in the U.S. Army, including three years abroad in Germany, taught him responsibility and accountability – skills useful to him working in university residence halls and academic advising.
Leslie Thomas-Washington worked in the Webster Groves School District before relocating with her husband to New Orleans, Louisiana, where she worked for several years in various capacities, as a classroom teacher, a school literacy facilitator, and as a reading intervention teacher. Then Hur…
Something students recognize right away about Kurly Taylor, a college advisor at Riverview Gardens Senior High School, is that he sees them for who they are, said senior Michael Crymes.
Kim Haywood Jr. serves as the science teacher for middle school and high school students at Lovejoy Technology Academy, a public school in Lovejoy, Illinois. One of his goals is to show students that there are opportunities out there in the real world. “My real goal is working with high scho…
Dorthea B. Nevils has served as an English teacher at her alma mater, University City High School, since the age of 21. Nevils has played many roles since joining the high school. Nevils worked as the English department chairperson, building union representative, class sponsor and in many mo…
Chauncey E. Granger was promoted to serve as the principal of Hazelwood East High School in July, and his first priority is to build relationships with students and families.
Bernard Long Jr. has served as the band director for Normandy High School since 2014 and is an adjunct professor of jazz drumset at Lindenwood University. All the while, he remained a student himself, earning his teaching certificate in Music Education and master’s degree in Music Education …
Early childhood teacher Andrea Scott often recites a W.E.B. Du Bois quote that goes, “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
Two exceptional teachers will be recognized at The St. Louis American Foundation’s Salute to Excellence in Education Gala. The Golden Apple award is presented each year to two Newspaper In Education (NIE) teachers that excel in the ways that they have integrated The St. Louis American newspa…
They are an assistant high school principal, a middle and high school science teacher, a high school band director, a high school English teacher, an advisor at a university, an elementary school principal, a secondary English language arts curriculum coach, and a high school special educati…
When 26-year-old Lorenzo Davis lost his job recently, he knew he had to do some fast thinking. He sent a quick text message to Jamie Dennis, director of the Save Our Sons program with the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis.
Moline Elementary School has two friendly greeters at the entrance of its building. They crawl around each other in a blue plastic baby pool lined with mulch and eat lettuce. Never mind that they’re turtles; it’s clear that everyone considers them part of the family.
Two young, black and passionate educators – a 24-year-old college advisor at Riverview Gardens Senior High School and a 28-year-old lead teacher at William L. Clay Sr. Early Childhood Development/Parenting Center – will be honored for their work at the St. Louis American Foundation’s 2018 Sa…
Johnetta Randolph Haley has never stopped teaching – not since she began her educational career as a music teacher in East St. Louis in the early 1940s.
Jovan McBride was within a week of graduating from Hazelwood Central High School when he found out that he had been awarded a $75,000 Dr. Donald M. Suggs Scholarship at Webster University, facilitated by the St. Louis American Foundation.
At The St. Louis American Foundation’s 2017 Salute to Excellence in Education gala, 26 students received scholarships – totaling over $620,000 – to help them pursue post-secondary education.
Students start the school year by getting new schools supplies. This preparation is difficult for students who cannot afford it. Angela Keys starts the year by stocking up on school supplies that she can give away to the students who need them.
Anya Gray Franklin was inspired to go into education by her mother, a St. Louis Public Schools teacher. Franklin grew up watching her mother fight for teachers’ rights, and when she got her degree in education, she always thought she would be an elementary school teacher in the same district.
Beginning with his time at Teach for America after graduating from college, Kevin M. Martin has always been passionate about making education equitable for all students and helping struggling students succeed. His lessons from his time there are ones he still applies now, as the assistant pr…
When she was a child, Latisha Smith and her siblings played school in their kitchen.
“Get ready for this glamour, honey!”
There’s a chance Felesha Clarke was the first applicant for the Dr. Donald Suggs Scholarship at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
In eight days (September 23), The St. Louis American Foundation will once again bring black glamour to America’s Center for the 30th Annual Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship and Awards Gala. As per usual, hundreds of thousands of dollars will be given away to help students pursue…
Eight area educators will receive general awards for excellence at the St. Louis American Foundation’s Salute to Excellence in Education at America’s Center on Saturday, September 23.
Kyrnn Peoples, a junior at Jennings Senior High School, knows that he is going to college because the school district has been planting that seed in him for a long time.
When she was growing up, Kim Quain never doubted whether she was going to earn a college degree. Quain, now a college/career counselor at Hazelwood West High School, was raised by a single mother worked at General Electric in the factory for 42 years. Her mother, Jeanette Lewis, repeatedly t…
Michele Lemee, a master teacher in the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis’ Head Start program, remembers when little Eugene walked into her classroom more than a decade ago. Although extremely bright, Eugene sometimes had trouble handling his emotions, she said. But by working with him o…
Poverty critically impacts our region’s students, said St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams.
Michael Middleton said it was just in his bones to be a lawyer.
Three St. Louis education, business and civic leaders are chairing the St. Louis American Foundation’s 30th Annual Salute to Excellence in Education Scholarship and Awards Gala.
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