ECEA TEACHER SCHOLARSHIPS

​Early Childhood Educators who are committed to thoughtful, student-centered, culturally-responsive literacy teaching are invited to apply for a scholarship to attend the National Council of Teachers of English's annual conference. Call for 2017 Annual Meeting nominations are open now!  
APPLICATION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2017
Call for nominations
Nominations should be submitted via email to Elizabeth Morphis, ECEA Teacher Scholarships Committee Chair 

**NEW SCHOLARSHIP** 
Dr. Dinah Volk Pre-Service Teacher Scholarship 

Dr. Dinah Volk has spent her career studying issues of bilingualism, multilingual education, and home and community language and literacy practices across diverse cultural contexts. She is a firm advocate for more culturally sustaining pedagogies in Early Childhood Education. Dr. Volk draws upon her expertise in guiding pre-service teachers to learn and honor the home and community literacies of young children in her tireless efforts to improve Early Childhood Education. She brought this expertise to her role as 2014-2015 Chair of the Early Childhood Education Assembly (ECEA), dedicated to the ongoing growth of the Assembly, and promoting its role and national recognition as primary contributor to the field at large. This preservice teacher scholarship will be given to a pre-service teacher who has shown commitment to better understanding how to use the rich resources children bring to school from their homes and communities as a platform for educational achievement in schools.

The Vivian Vasquez Teacher Scholarship
Throughout her career, Dr. Vivian Vasquez has advocated for critical literacy by supporting young children in deconstructing and reconstructing texts in their everyday worlds and situating inquiry within young children’s rich repertoires of interests and practices, such as technology and popular culture. Dr. Vasquez’s advocacy for teacher research conveys her perspective of teachers as professionals uniquely positioned to investigate and change classroom practices. This scholarship is awarded to an Early Childhood teacher or teacher researcher who honors the work of Vivian Vasquez by encouraging young children to be critical inquirers and activists for social change. 

The Mariana Souto-Manning Teacher Scholarship
Dr. Mariana Souto-Manning’s work in early childhood education takes a critical approach to schooling in multicultural and multilingual contexts. Through collaborative research, Dr. Souto-Manning has provided opportunities for teachers and young children alike to critically interrogate how dominant school practices position diverse learners, and how they can take action to (re)position themselves. This scholarship is awarded to an Early Childhood teacher who honors the work of Mariana Souto-Manning by exploring critical perspectives of early schooling experiences among diverse children and families. 

Nominations should be submitted via email to María Paula Ghiso, ECEA Teacher Scholarships Committee Chair (ghiso@tc.edu)