The American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association’s (ADTSEA) Teacher Excellence Award (TEA) sponsored by The National Road Safety Foundation (NRSF), honors outstanding driver and traffic safety educators.
The non-profit National Road Safety Foundation has been a strong supporter of driver education throughout its more than 45 years. NRSF produces and distributes at no charge educational films, teaching manuals and public service campaigns for use by professionals in driver education, traffic safety, public health and law enforcement. More than a million copies of the Foundation's films and materials have been distributed nationwide. Based in New York City, NRSF was founded in 1962 by Fraydun Manocherian, who as a teen lost two friends to a drunk driver. For more information, visit www.nrsf.org or contact David Reich at 212 573-6000.
To see the criteria and requirements for the award, and to fill out a nomination form, click here.
| Past Recipients | |||||||||||
| 1999 | 2008 | ||||||||||
| Robin A. Bordner, MI. | Joe Barch, VT. | ||||||||||
| David Barnum, MN. | |||||||||||
| 2000 | Donn Davidson, MI. | ||||||||||
| Duane L. "Dewey" Mettler, MN. | Gary Davis, NC. | ||||||||||
| Romona Maxim, TX. | |||||||||||
| 2001 | Warren Hisashi Miyasaki, HI. | ||||||||||
| Chuck Filippini, WA. | William "Bill" Warner, OR. | ||||||||||
| 2002 | 2009 | ||||||||||
| Lindsay Townsend, VT. | Larry Fosness, MN. | ||||||||||
| Sammy Lee, HI. | |||||||||||
| 2003 | John Lynch, VT. | ||||||||||
| Debbie Cottonware, WA. | Charles Mason, NC. | ||||||||||
| 2004 | 2010 | ||||||||||
| John Knippel, CA. | Gay Ching, HI. | ||||||||||
| Gerald Dickinson, TX. | |||||||||||
| 2005 | Stanley Henderson, IN. | ||||||||||
| Harold Laird, MT. | Kevin Kirby, WI. | ||||||||||
| William Powell, NC. | |||||||||||
| 2006 | Fred Schreiber, MN. | ||||||||||
| Richard Hanson, OR. | Michael Shepard, WA | ||||||||||
| Mark Lee, MN. | Charles Worrell, VT. | ||||||||||
| 2007 | 2011 | ||||||||||
| Greg Brown, MI. | Barbara Brody, VT. | ||||||||||
| Joseph Christensen, MN. | Bobby Duque, HI. | ||||||||||
| John Duffy, VA. | |||||||||||
| Gary L. Holobek, KY. | |||||||||||
| William Mayville, VT. | |||||||||||
