The Turnaround Management Association, the premier nonprofit organization representing the corporate restructuring industry, is accepting applications for the 2010 Butler-Cooley Excellence in Teaching Award.
The program recognizes K-12 classroom teachers who have changed students’ lives and the communities where they teach.
Established in 2004 with a grant from the John Wm. Butler Foundation, Inc., the award is named in honor of Leslie Bender Butler and Cindy Butler Cooley, relatives of a former TMA chairman and teachers who collectively have spent more than 50 years influencing children’s lives.
TMA will award a $5,000 cash stipend and cover travel and lodging expenses for one teacher to attend the TMA 2010 Spring Conference, April 20-22, at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York, NY.
Entries are due Feb. 1.
Nominees must:
- Be licensed and active elementary or secondary (K-12) school teachers
- Teach at an accredited public or private school
- Have at least five years of teaching experience
- Have taught the equivalent of 20 hours per week (based on at least a nine-month academic calendar year) for at least five of the prior seven years
Guidelines, entry forms and lists of previous winners are available at turnaround.org/About/Awards.aspx.
About the Turnaround Management Association
The Chicago-based Turnaround Management Association has more than 9,000 members in 46 regional chapters who comprise a professional community of turnaround practitioners, attorneys, accountants, investors, lenders, venture capitalists, appraisers, liquidators, executive recruiters and consultants.