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The
Ezekiel Award
for
Excellence
in
Christian Witness
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Teaching
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Encourage and retain excellent teachers of effective Christian witness to continue teaching and witnessing in Christian primary and secondary schools. |
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* Full-time teacher at ECA or ECA graduate teaching full-time at a primary or secondary Christian school, |
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* Demonstrated effective Christian witness of righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness (1 Tim 6:11) and encourage those qualities in others (students, staff & teachers), |
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* Excellence in teaching as confirmed by peer and student reviews and assisting students to successfully apply their understanding of the subject matter, |
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* Financial need (consideration, but not required) as indicated by student loans or need to work 2nd or 3rd job to support family or himself or herself, |
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* By accepting the stipend, the teacher agrees to teach in a Christian school for the next year. |
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| Ezekiel Peter Wetlesen, a 2006 graduate of ECA, had the life goals of pursuing a teaching degree in mathematics and then returning to ECA to teach. Due to a brain tumor, Ezekiel was not able to pursue those goals. Therefore, he decided to establish an endowment to encourage and retain excellent teachers of effective Christian witness to teach in Christian schools. Ezekiel's desire is that proceeds from the endowment provide stipends to award winners to augment their salary for the next year of teaching in a Christian school. This would encourage those teachers and enable them to continue teaching in Christian schools due to reduced financial concerns. | |
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Download the Ezekiel Award brochure here (5MB), or request a printed copy using the Contact page. |
| Applications: |
Students, teachers, parents, school administrators and ECA
graduates can nominate candidates from October 1st until
January 30th each school year.
Download an application form in either MS Word or PDF format. |
| Recipients: |
- 2008 - Anne Lichlyter
"The recipient of The Ezekiel Award for excellence in Christian
witness and teaching for 2008 is Miss Anne Lichlyter, a fifth grade
teacher at the Evangelical Christian Academy Elementary Campus. Miss
Lichlyter is a 1996 graduate of ECA and a 2000 Graduate of Covenant
College. She has been teaching at ECA since the 2000-2001 school
year."
- 2009 - Emily Wilson
"One of the 2009 recipients of The Ezekiel Award for excellence in
Christian witness and teaching is Mrs. Emily Wilson, a teacher at
the Evangelical Christian Academy Secondary Campus. Mrs. Wilson is a
graduate of Columbia International University in Columbia, South
Carolina. After graduation, she taught English for two years at a
Christian school in Tampa, Florida. For the past three years, she
has been teaching a variety of subjects at Evangelical Christian
Academy (ECA), including World Literature, Church History, Logic, and
Yearbook. She has also led groups of ECA students on educational
tours to Europe and Central America.
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- 2009 - Dale Hart
"One of the 2009 recipients of The Ezekiel Award for excellence in
Christian witness and teaching is Mr. Dale Hart, a teacher at the
Evangelical Christian Academy Elementary Campus. Mr. Hart has been
teaching at Evangelical Christian Academy (ECA) for the past 20
years. He has taught 1 year of third grade, 1 year of sixth grade,
and 18 years of second grade. Prior to teaching at ECA Mr. Hart
taught 5 years at Woodland Christian School in Woodland Park. Mr.
Hart received a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Colorado
at Colorado Springs in Educational Technology and a Bachelor of Arts
Degree from Michigan State University in Elementary Education.
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| Opinion: |
Deaths of local teens are a reminder to live well
Colorado Springs Gazette, CO - Aug 22, 2007 | |
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