The votes have been counted! The honorees list has been published!

Nominations and community voting for the Educator’s Voice Awards began on April 2nd and closed on May 15th. During that period over 500 nominations were received and 351 were accepted in 31 categories across the education field.

Today we released the names of the people who received the most votes in each category and who were identified by their peers in the general education community for the exceptional work they are doing to help educate our children. Once again, I was surprised by the outcome in many categories, but this tells me the system is working well.

Note that the Educator's Voice Award is *not* the Bammy Award. Many people have been confused about this and ask about the difference between the two. The Educator's Voice honorees are determined by popular vote (similar to the People’s Choice awards). The Bammy Award honorees are selected by the Academy Board of Governors. Bammy Award honorees are not publicly announced untill the Bammy Awards event in September.

Each serves a different purpose.The main objective of the Educator’s Voice Awards is to cast a wide net and ensure that the awards don't just end up recognizing the same people we know and read about all the time. The goal of the Educator’s Voice is to surface great work being done by educators who are way off the radar screen. Like last year the Educator’s Voice Awards brought educators whom we had never heard of to our attention and a couple actually went on to be selected by the Academy to also receive a Bammy Award.

Congratulations to all of the honorees, and thanks to all who nominated candidates and voted!! Educator’s Voice honorees automatically become members of the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences’ Council of Peers. Educator’s Voice honorees will be recognized along with Bammy Award honorees at the presentation in Washington D.C. on September 21st.

If you know any of the honorees (and even if you don't), be sure to congratulate them! Here is the link to the list.