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 The McGlothlin Celebration of Teaching and McGlothlin Awards project are underwritten by The McGlothlin Foundation of Bristol, Virginia. The McGlothlin Awards for Teaching Excellence are administered by Blue Ridge PBS. Radford University is a partner in presenting the McGlothlin Celebration of Teaching and the McGlothlin Awards ceremony.
For each of the past eight years the McGlothlin Foundation has recognized two of the region’s teachers -- one in grades K-5 and one in grades 6-12 -- with the McGlothlin Awards for Teaching Excellence. Each winner is awarded $25,000, with the stipulation that $10,000 must be used, within a year, for international travel and/or study to broaden the thinking and experience of the winning teachers and further enhance their excellence as professional educators. According to Thomas D. McGlothlin, president of the McGlothlin Foundation, "The McGlothlin Foundation wishes to inspire the award recipients so that they can breathe new life into their classrooms, their peers, and indeed the entire school."
Blue Ridge PBS, founded in 1967, is the sole public multimedia enterprise serving 2.5 million individuals in portions of five states. The station's 26,000 square-mile coverage area includes southwestern Virginia and bordering counties in Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and North Carolina. As the region's storyteller, Blue Ridge PBS offers outstanding informational, educational and cultural programming, along with an award-winning local production team devoted to regional issues and interests. Further, over 200,000 schoolchildren and their teachers benefit from the station's education services that provide a safe, trusted environment for innovative on-air and online learning. Blue Ridge PBS is comprised of WBRA-TV/DT in Roanoke, WSBN-TV/DT in Norton, and WMSY-TV/DT in Marion, Va.
In recent years Radford University has been recognized by several national ranking agencies including U.S. News and World Report's Guide to America's Best Colleges, The Princeton Review and the Kaplan/Newsweek College Guide. Located in Southwest Virginia, the institution offers 140 undergraduate and graduate degrees in seven colleges and has an enrollment of 9,122.
Radford has been preparing teachers for the state and the nation since 1910 and has a distinguished record of service to school divisions throughout the region and state. The College of Education and Human Development's Center for Professional Development offers programs planned in collaboration with professional development administrators in area school divisions, with a focus on the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
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