Search form    • Who are your colleagues?    • Why honor
colleagues?    • Who should honor colleagues?    • When should
you honor colleagues?    • How do you honor colleagues?  At the
annual meeting of a coalition of adult educators, a high point
is always the announcement of the Teacher and Administrator of
the Year awards. In a recent year, the administrator chosen was
the long-time director of a program in a correctional
institution. Both the director and the program as a whole had
the reputation of being both caring and effective - difficult in
a prison setting - and unfailingly supportive of staff members.
Those staff members had nominated him, and their tribute to him
was read as part of the presentation.  When the award was
announced, the administrator was stunned and deeply moved. He
thanked his staff and the coalition for the honor, swallowed the
lump in his throat, and made a brief acceptance speech. "You
have no idea how much this means to me," he said, "because it
comes from people who really know