N. Babylon Teachers Named Award Winners

Joan Carlino and GinaMarie Petraglia, teachers from the North Babylon School District’s Belmont Elementary School, in partnership with Linda A. Catelli, a Dowling College professor of education, have been named winners of the Claudia A. Balach Teacher Researcher Award, which is sponsored by the Professional Development School Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.

The purpose of the award is to encourage collaborative research in pre-kindergarten through grade 12 schools between  faculty and administration and university teacher preparation programs on important challenges of practices, professional development and student outcomes. They were the recipients of the award due to their collaborative and longitudinal action research that was conducted over the years of the partnership with the Belmont Elementary PDS teachers, Dowling College’s graduate students, teacher candidates, partnering professors and administrators.

Also included in their application was a brief history of their collaborative action research and their proposed research paper, “Measuring Classroom Teacher Effectiveness: A Professional Development School (PDS) Video-Based Action Research Study,” which was accepted for presentation by the AERA.

The three educators will be honored at the AERA’s annual meeting in San Francisco at the end of April.