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Awards

One award may be given in each category. Nominators, but not the recipients, must be a member of COABE. Nominations must be submitted by December 15, 2010.

Winners will be honored during the Awards Banquet at the annual COABE National Conference in April, 2011. Attendance at the Awards Banquet is mandatory. To assist award winners, each will receive a $1,650 financial award which will include airfare and hotel accommodations. Additionally, successful nominators will receive a complimentary registration for the annual conference where the award is presented.

The links below are to the nomination forms and criteria for the six prestigious awards, incentive grants and scholarships given by the Commission on Adult Basic Education.

The awards given by the Commission on Adult Basic Education are:

1. Edgar M. Easley Award to the Outstanding Teacher of the Year
   The Edgar M. Easley Award is given to a practitioner with five or more years of adult education teaching experience that participates in school and community activities. This award is given to an individual who understands the characteristics of the adult learner and who is committed to the adult/continuing education profession.
2. ABE Administrator of the Year Award
   The Adult Basic Education Administrator of the Year Award is awarded to an adult education administrator with five or more years of experience who has made an outstanding contribution toward fostering the concept of education as a continuing life-process.
3. Partner in Adult Learning Service Award (PALS)
   The Partners in Adult Learning Services (PALS) Award honors an individual or organization that is not employed in the field of education, but that has made an outstanding contribution to adult basic education/literacy as a community leader at the local state, regional, and/or national level.
4. Outstanding ABE/GED Adult Learner Award
   The Adult Learner of the Year award is given to a student who has overcome difficult circumstances to pursue adult learning, who has supported other adult learners, and who has managed significant adult responsibilities such as those related to employment, family or community.
5. Kenneth J. Mattran Award (Promoting literacy at the national and international level)
   The Kenneth J. Mattran Award honors an individual who has a distinguished record of achievement in promoting literacy at the national or international level.
6. Chester Klevins Award to the Outstanding Workplace Literacy Program
   The Chester Klevins Award honors an institution which has developed an outstanding workplace literacy program serving a local community, state/province, region and/or nation, has provided programming for more than three years, has developed customized services/curriculum at varied workplace settings, and who can provide evidence from employers that the program has met their objectives.

Incentive Grants and Scholarships

Incentive Grants and Scholarships provide financial support to members for small special projects or advanced study in Adult Education. There may be up to four recipients in each category. Recipients must be a member of or join COABE. Applications must be submitted by December 15, 2010.

1. COABE Scholarship Information and Application
   Scholarships from COABE fund, or partially fund, college level courses of study that will advance the professional standing of COABE practitioners.
2. COABE Incentive Grant Information and Application
   COABE provides incentive grants that support activities or projects in the field of adult basic education through the secondary level. The overall purposes of the grants are to promote:
   • field-based, practitioner-developed activities for student/faculty growth
   • program improvement through enhanced curriculum, instruction, assessment, counseling, student services, research/evaluation, or community involvement

Special thanks to Dollar General for its financial support in sponsoring the COABE awards, incentive grants, and scholarship progam!