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Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards

In 1994, the Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards were established to honor outstanding early childhood educators from the Chicago metropolitan area. The Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards were the first teacher recognition program exclusively designed to acknowledge the talents and contributions of early childhood educators working in the diverse early education settings which include schools, child care centers, Head Start programs, state pre-kindergartens and licensed family care homes. The program has become a national model.

The result of a partnership between the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation and the McCormick Foundation, two of Chicago’s leading philanthropic organizations, the awards lend a new level of prestige to the work of these teachers in the educational community and with the public at large.