
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