DR. AIMEE BURGAMY (Ph.D. 2009) WINS NATIONAL TEACHING AWARD

Dr. Aimee Burgamy (Ph.D. Art/Art Education, 2009), a middle school art teacher from Lilburn, GA won the first annual Great American Teacher Awards, sponsored by the Ron Clark Academy. Dr. Burgamy was the only Georgia teacher named as a finalist and only art teacher to be recognized.

Dr. Burgamy serves as the lead teacher for twenty-five middle school art teachers in Gwinnett County. She is the winner of the National Art Association's Jr. National Art Honor Society Sponsor of the Year award and was recently named as her Gwinnet County School District Teacher of the Year

Dr. Burgamy will receive a $10,000 cash award, a $5,000 cash gift to her school, a Promethean Active Board and a Complete Audio Enhancement System for her classroom. She will also receive a DELL Winner’s Tablet PC with a special engraving and a printer. Read more.

Ron Clark (cofounder of the Ron Clark Academy and former Disney Award and Milken Educator recipient) and a panel of six esteemed judges named Dr. Burgamy as the 2009 Great American Teacher of the Year.

The Ron Clark Academy is a private, nonprofit SACS CASI accredited middle school in Southeast Atlanta that promotes innovation and inspires its students through energetic teaching balanced by a strict code of discipline. Each year, 3,000 educators from around the world visit the Academy to learn how to replicate the school’s style, philosophy and success in their own classrooms. The Academy currently relies on outside funding to provide scholarships to students from varying academic backgrounds.