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.

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.