NCSE is pleased to congratulate Bertha Vazquez on receiving the Evolution Education Award for 2017 from the National Association of Biology Teachers. Vazquez received the award at the NABT's recent conference in St. Louis, Missouri.
The NABT award, sponsored by BEACON and BSCS, "recognizes innovative classroom teachers and their efforts to promote the accurate understanding of biological evolution with the larger community."
A member of NCSE and a guest contributor to NCSE's blog (see, e.g., her "Sharing the Passion for Evolution Education"), Vazquez teaches at G. W. Carver Middle School in Miami. and directs the Richard Dawkins Foundation's Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science.