Grants & Awards
Grants
- $430,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2009 Roads to Success
Awards
- Revere Awards Curriculum Finalist, Best Science, Health and Environment Supplemental Resource Southern Poverty Law Center/Teaching Tolerance (Stand Up For STEM), 2017
- Teachers' Choice Award, 2014 Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grades 3-8 Solution Tree/Knowledge Delivery Systems
- Cine Golden Eagle Award, 2005 Reading with Babies, The Read to Me Program
- Cable Television's Golden Beacon Award, 2000 Opening the Door to Diversity: Voices from the Middle School (Part of the "Choices and Consequences" public affairs initiative), Court TV
- Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series, 1998 Reading Rainbow (On The Day You Were Born), PBS
- Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series, 1996 Reading Rainbow (The Wonderful Towers of Watts), PBS
- NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Educational/Informational Youth or Children's Series/Special LeVar Burton Presents: A Reading Rainbow Special: Act Against Violence, PBS, 1996
- Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series, 1993 Reading Rainbow (Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies), PBS
Other Recognition
- Email from former 2nd-grade student, 2011 "You are still my favorite teacher of all time . . . You made learning fun."
- The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, 2007 Weekly Winner, February 5th
