| Kim Burke Ables | | | | In honoring Burke-Ables, Norton also expressed |
| Science Teacher, Benjamin Banneker Academic High | | | | appreciation to Banneker Principal Anita Berger for |
| School | | | | providing an environment for enriched academic |
| Washington, DC- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes | | | | growth and development and to other Washington |
| Norton (D-DC) today introduced a congressional | | | | D.C. school principals and teachers for their |
| resolution recognizing Kim Burke-Ables, a science | | | | commitment and service to the education of the citys |
| teacher at Washington D.C. schools Benjamin | | | | children. The resolution congratulated Bannekers |
| Banneker Academic High School, on her selection as | | | | designation in the May 21, 2006 edition of Newsweek |
| the District of Columbia Teacher of the Year for 2006, | | | | Magazine as one of the nations best high schools. The |
| and congratulating her for her exceptional dedication to | | | | national recognition of one Washington D.C. school and |
| the students and her excellence as a teacher. | | | | its teachers has brought pride and high expectations |
| Burke-Ables has been teaching at Banneker for three | | | | for Washington D.C. school students and parents alike. |
| years and has received praise for developing creative | | | | Exemplary Teaching at Washington D.C. Schools |
| ways to motivate her students to learn and | | | | Burke-Ables was among elected officials, educators |
| understand biology, life sciences, human anatomy and | | | | and residents who recently attended a Capitol Hill |
| physiology, and chemistry. She has contributed to | | | | reception Norton sponsored in recognition of 2005 |
| making this Washington D.C. school competitive and | | | | National Teacher of the Year Jason Kamras of Sousa |
| relevant in student lives. | | | | Middle School, who preceded Burke-Ables as the D.C. |
| Student Turned Congresswoman Praises Washington | | | | Teacher of the Year. Kamras is the only Washington |
| D.C. Schools | | | | D.C. school teacher to win the competition for National |
| Norton, who went to Banneker when it was a junior | | | | Teacher of the Year, the oldest and most prestigious |
| high school, said that she was pleased that, Bannekers | | | | national honors program that focuses public attention |
| excellence is attributed in no small part to the | | | | on excellence in teaching. |
| excellence of Kim Burke-Ables and others like her, | | | | This is not the first time Burke-Ables has received |
| although the school building looks as it did when I was | | | | prestigious educational awards. In 2004, she was |
| a seventh grade kid and Banneker was a junior high | | | | selected to work as an educational consultant to the |
| school. Norton recently announced that she intends to | | | | National Academies of Science and won a TEACH |
| make a priority for the coming year federal tax credits | | | | Fellowship (Teaching Educators Agriculture and |
| for Washington D.C. school bonds so that Washington | | | | Conservation Holistically) with the U.S. Department of |
| D.C. school systems can more quickly rebuild or repair | | | | Agriculture to travel to Ghana, West Africa. In 2003, |
| old schools like Banneker. Bannekers excellence | | | | the Milken Family Foundation gave the science teacher |
| despite the limitations and the age of its facilities is the | | | | the District of Columbia Milken Educator Award. All of |
| inspiration any of us should need to make old schools | | | | these awards have contributed to her outstanding |
| like Banneker fit for what Kim Burke-Ables and other | | | | performance as a science teacher for Washington |
| teachers do inside. | | | | D.C. schools. |