The John Marshall Foundation has announced its 2011 Teacher Award Winners. Mr. Manuel Rios, a history teacher at Midlothian Middle School in Chesterfield County, is the winner of the Middle School Award. Mr. Robert Peck, Chair of the Center for Government, Leadership and Global Economics at the Douglas S. Freeman High School in Henrico County, is the winner of the High School Award.
This annual award recognition began in 1989 as one of the Foundation’s first educational programs to honor outstanding secondary school teachers for their demonstrated knowledge of and enthusiasm for the United States Constitution as evidenced through activities inside and outside of the classroom. Any public or private middle or high school classroom teacher in Virginia who has been teaching for a minimum of five years is eligible for the award.
Each winner will receive $2500 and a certificate that will be presented by the Honorable Harry L. Carrico, former Chief Justice and now Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, as part of the Richmond Bar Association’s Annual Law Day Luncheon on May 2nd at the Richmond Omni Hotel.
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