ILA Awards

Outstanding Educator Award

The Outstanding Educator is a teacher (open to all levels, including elementary, secondary, college, and university) who is knowledgeable about listening and how to teach listening; teaches listening (could be part of a course, such as language arts, communication, speech, business, leadership, etc.); and shares his or her knowledge and techniques for teaching listening with others through convention presentations, publishing, teacher in-service, etc.).

2024 - Donna Schiess

2023 - Helen Meldrum

2021 - Susan Timm & Teri Varner

2020 - Laura Janusik

2019 - S.A. Welch

2018 - Michael Z Murphy & Sandra Bodin-Lerner

2016 - Kae Van Engen

2015 0 Kent Zimmerman

2014 - Marva Shand-McIntosh

2013 - Michael Gilbert

2012 - Charles Veenstra

2011 - Margarete Imhof

2010 - Michael Purdy

2009 - Tuula-Riitta Valikoski

2008 - Melissa Beall

2007 - Margaret Fitch-Hauser

2006 - Richard Bommelje

2005 - Nanette Johnson-Curiskis

2004 - Wayne Bond

2003 - Kathy Thompson

2002 - Mary Bozik

2001 - Andrew D. Wolvin