Cable in the Classroom offers education awards

Award winners get $3,000 and an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON -- Cable In the Classroom is looking for educational leaders from across the country who have created and implemented innovative learning programs.
Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards program is open to classroom and community program teachers, administrators, community leaders and policy-makers, as well as others who have had a major impact on educating youths.
Applications are available on the Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards Web site: www.leadersinlearningawards.org now through Jan. 31.
Cable's Leaders in Learning Awards will recognize innovative programs that are transforming education by demonstrating excellence in expanding and enhancing learning opportunities and producing measurable improvements in educational outcomes.
Additional awards will be given to those using cable technology and content and community initiatives done in partnership with a network or cable company.
Other categories
A special category will recognize the contributions of state and local officials such as mayors, state legislators and state education officials who conceive and execute programs that have significant, positive effects on schools and students.
Another category, chosen in partnership with National PTA, will recognize leadership in advancing media literacy skills.
Completed applications will be judged by a panel of 30 education experts. Winners will receive a $3,000 cash prize in addition to an all-expense-paid trip to Washington in June 2006.
Award recipients will visit Capitol Hill to talk about their award-winning programs and then attend an awards ceremony.
"We were delighted at the overwhelming quantity of truly impressive candidates last year, and we're eager to see the projects described in this year's applications," said Dr. Helen Soule, executive director of Cable in the Classroom.
Cable in the Classroom, the cable industry's education foundation, was created in 1989 to help schools take advantage of educational cable programming and technology.