The Michael Stratton Practitioner's Award
This award honors an experiential practitioner who has demonstrated consistently high levels of performance in working directly with students or clients. This person's work "in the trenches" demonstrates that an individual practitioner can bring about significant change and impact the lives of students, participants or clients.
2019 Recipient: Bobbi Beale

Criteria:
- Must be a current member of AEE.
- Must demonstrate high ethical standards.
- Must have demonstrated consistently high levels of performance as a practitioner of the experiential education process.
- Must have a solid knowledge of quality standards and demonstrated this knowledge throughout her/his practicing career.
- Is ideally "in the trenches" on a daily basis, a worker more than a program director.
- Should be a practitioner more than a theorist.
- Is ideally a full-time experiential educator.
- Lives and works with a passion for experiential education.
- Has demonstrated that an individual practitioner can bring about significant change or impact in the lives of students, participants or clients.
- Is ideally involved with and committed to AEE.
Past Recipients:
2018 - Maria Jose (Mache) Trevino 2017 - Jeff Wilson 2016 - Chih-Mou Hsieh 2015 - Kim Sacksteder 2014 - Tony Alvarez 2013- Ken Kalisch 2012 - Sandy Kohn 2011 - Rick Medrick 2010 - Pam McPhee 2009 - David W. Lovejoy 2008 - Gary Stauffer 2007 - Denise Mitten 2006 - Bob Henderson 2005 - Jim Schoel 2004 - no award given 2003 - Marty Knuth 2002 - Thomas Leahy 2001 - Jean Berube 2000 - H. "Lee" Gillis 1999 - Richard Rutschman 1998 - Karen Warren 1997 - Laurie Frank 1996 - Dan Creely & Angel Russek 1995 - JoAnna Woo Allen 1994 - Craig Dobkin 1993 - Betsy Caldwell Dalgliesh 1992 - Deborah Eads 1991 - Sanford Tollette 1990 - Karl Rohnke 1989 - Reno Taini 1988 - Ava Heinrichsdorff 1987 - Keith King 1986 - Michael Stratton
|