Ron Clark Academy Great American Teacher Awards
 The Florida Education Channel helped create history October 23rd when the Ron Clark Academy’s Great American Teacher Awards was made available to a national audience over Dish Network and widely distributed via satellite to PBS stations nationwide.
The inaugural event was staged in the W hotel in Atlanta, Georgia during a Hollywood style celebration recognizing some of the nation’s top teachers. Nominations for the top teacher award came from all across America. Five finalists were selected and the winner was announced during the ceremony.
The winner, Dr. Aimee Burgamy, an art teacher from Lilburn, Georgia, received a $10,000 dollar cash award plus an assortment of technology for her classroom. Dr. Burgamy serves as the lead teacher for twenty-five middle school art teachers in Gwinnett County, GA. She is the winner of the National Art Association's Jr. National Art Honor Society Sponsor of the Year award and was recently named as her Gwinnet County School District Teacher of the Year.
Ron Clark (cofounder of the Ron Clark Academy and former Disney Award and Milken Educator recipient) and a panel of six esteemed judges named Dr. Burgamy as the 2009 Great American Teacher of the Year.
The Florida Education Channel was responsible for coordinating the video production, stage management, satellite distribution, and broadcasting the event. Lisa Schofield, station manager at the FEC, was the overall director for the broadcast.
Four PBS stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, and Eerie and Pittston, Pennsylvania broadcast the program as well as an educational station in Miami.
The re-broadcast of the event will begin on November 10th at 11:00 A.M. CST and run periodically through 2010 on the FEC on Channel 9418 on Dish Network.
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