Selected by their peers at American Driver
& Traffic Safety Education Association
ALBANY,
N.Y., July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Driver
education teachers from three states have been selected by their
peers nationwide as Teachers of Excellence. The honor, with a cash
stipend, comes from the National Road Safety Foundation and the
American Driver & Traffic Safety Education Association
(ADTSEA). The honorees are Gabriella Netch of Vermont, Deborah
Fry of Chesapeake, VA, and
Jennifer Brown of Gillespie, IL.
Teacher of Excellence honoree Deborah
Fry has been teaching driver education since 2002, at Indian
River Middle School and Indian River High School in Chesapeake, VA. She has served on driver
education curriculum steering committees for the Virginia Dept. of
Education.
Teacher of Excellence honoree Jennifer Brown has been
teaching many subjects including driver education at Gillespie High
School since 2000. For the past three years she has been the ADTSEA
liaison for the National Student Safety Program liaison for ADTSEA,
coordinating the group's annual student conference.
Teacher of Excellence Gabriella Netch, of Wallingford, VT, teaches at Yankee Driving
School, which serves students at several schools throughout the
Green Mountain State. She has served on the ADTSEA Board of
Directors since 2022.
These outstanding teachers represent our best, and they inspire
their peers to be passionate and effective teachers of this
important lifetime skill," said Harold
Fleming, a past ADTSEA president who heads the TEA selection
committee. "We are proud to recognize them as the 2024 Teachers of
Excellence."
All are being honored here today at the ADTSEA national
conference, where they will present innovative lesson plans to
their peers.
"Driver education teachers are dedicated to the young people
they serve and often serve as role models in ways that go far
beyond driver training," said David
Reich of The National Road Safety Foundation and a member of
the ADTSEA Board of Directors. "These Teachers of Excellence have
demonstrated true passion for the important work they do to make
driving safely a lifelong experience."
The Teacher Excellence Awards, given by The National Road Safety
Foundation, are named in memory of Dr. Francis Kenel, a traffic safety engineer, former
director of the AAA, author of driver ed teacher training materials
and a mentor to countless driver education instructors.
The American Driver and Traffic Safety Education is the
professional association that represents traffic safety educators
throughout the United States. As a
national advocate for quality traffic safety education, the group
creates and publishes policies and guidelines for driver ed and
conducts conferences and workshops for teachers. It was
instrumental in creating the new driver education curriculum
standard from the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration.
The National Road Safety Foundation (NRSF), a non-profit
organization, has supported ADTSEA's Teacher Excellence Awards
program for the past 11 years. For more than 60 years, NRSF
has created driver education programs and materials for free
distribution to teachers, police, traffic safety agencies, youth
advocacy groups and others. NRSF has programs on distraction, speed
and aggression, impairment and drowsy driving. The group also
sponsors contests for teens in partnership with SADD and FCCLA, as
well as regional teen contests in partnership with auto shows in
Chicago and Detroit. To view and download free programs
and for more information, visit www.nrsf.org.
Contact: David Reich, 914
325-9997, david@nrsf.org
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SOURCE The National Road Safety Foundation