MIT Teacher Award
MIT Inspirational Teacher Award 
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The MIT Inspirational Teacher Award recognizes outstanding secondary school teachers who inspire in their students a love of learning, encourage them to pursue excellence, and give them the skills and enthusiasm they need to make a positive difference in the world.

Attention: MIT Students
If you have a teacher you wish to nominate for the MIT Inspirational Teacher Award, the next nomination period will be in the fall of 2012. In the meantime, you might want to let the teacher know of your gratitude.

"We can build better bridges between K-12 education and college, and at MIT we want to do all we can to help."

Susan Hockfield
President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Excerpt from President Hockfield's testimony to The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education


20 March 2006

Donna Ferguson, 2012 MIT Inspirational Teacher from ThunderRidge High School, Highlands Ranch, CO

Donna Ferguson, 2012 MIT Inspirational Teacher from ThunderRidge High School, Highlands Ranch, CO



Winners of the 2012 MIT Inspirational Teacher Award