KOHL INTERNATIONAL TEACHING AWARDS

1994 Recipients

Jean E. Baldikoski
Patricia Beiler
Roy Coleman
Susan Gundlach
Art Isennagle
Norma Butler May
Ira Carol McGill
Richard D. Morgan
Edward G. Pino
Linda Voss

Kohl Lifetime Achievement Award

Ella Jenkins

A Smithsonian/Folkways children’s recording artist, Jenkins’ career has spanned five decades, taken her to all seven continents, yielded twenty-two albums and numerous honors. Since her first television appearance in 1956, she has performed on “Sesame Street”, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and “Barney and Friends”. Incorporating her international travels in her performance, Jenkins brings rich, multicultural experiences to the stage. Through stories and song she helps youngsters celebrate the diversity in the world around them. The communication shared between Jenkins and the children is symbolized by her acclaimed “call and response” method, where she sings a line and the audience sings or responds with another.

Kohl Media Award

Alex Kotlowitz and HARPO Productions, There are No Children Here

Alex Kotlowitz and HARPO Productions were honored for the non-fiction work, There are No Children Here and the made-for-television movie based on the book. Kotlowitz did more than just write about the children of the Henry Horner public housing complex. He spent seven months experiencing their lifestyle first hand and then chronicled the lives of two boys, Pharoah and Lafeyette Rivers, surviving against the backdrop of urban poverty and crime. The book did more than touch the two boys. Used in high school and college campuses around the country, it is an important part of the education of all of American’s children.

Kohl Corporate Award

Ameritech

Ameritech was honored for its outstanding contribution to education in Illinois by bringing the benefits of advanced telecommunications technology into schools, providing generous contributions to the arts in education, and encouraging school reform. Ameritech undertook the development and funding of pilot projects and grant programs valued at more than $2.5 million to learn how advanced telecommunications services can create innovative opportunities in education in Illinois.

Kohl International Education Award

Dr. Shinichi Suzuki

Dr. Shinichi Suzuki founded the Suzuki method of teaching music. The Suzuki approach involves more than teaching a child to play an instrument. It seeks to develop the whole child and to release his potential to learn. The purpose of Suzuki training is not to produce great artists, but to help every child find the joy that comes from making music. The method strives to teach music to children in the same manner they learn language, stressing the importance of environment. If a child hears an instrument played and is encouraged in a nurturing environment, the child will learn to play. Over 250,000 students around the world learn music through the method he developed.