Teacher Collaboration Award

The teacher receiving this award demonstrates the exemplary collaboration with his/her library media specialist to create a curricular related programming unit of study or event that incorporates the library program.

A prize of $500 will be awarded to a classroom teacher who has worked in a collaborative manner with his/her school librarian to create a curriculum-related program, unit or event that incorporates the school library’s resources, the research process, reading advocacy, literacy support and/or technology integration.

*For this award, the program may have been implemented in the 2024-2025 school year or as a plan of action for the 2025-2026 school year.  Being the application date is August 10, we aren't sure how many of us will have come up with new programming for the 2025-2026 year.*

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All awards have an application deadline of April 20.
Winners will be honored during the  TASL Conference during the opening session.

Previous Winners

  • 2023:  Stephen Gray (teacher) and Kathleen Smith (librarian), Cedar Bluffs Middle School

  • 2022: Jill Ashworth & Dinah Wade

  • 2021: Brandi Hartsell & Rebecca Smith 

  • 2020: Jessica Alley, Katie Capshaw, Denise Cooper, Ruth-Ann Logsdon, Emily Marks, Phillip Stevenson

  • 2019 - Brandi Bowers Hartsell and Sarah Potter

  • 2018 - Librarians Debbie Greer and Clyde Riggs, Teachers Jennifer Bates and Heidi Wix 

  • 2017 - Christi Williams

  • 2016 - Zakeisha Smith