UPDATE: In April, we reported that one of our own, FIM Ambassador Cred Dobson, would be receiving the 2014 Benjamin Banneker Lifetime Achievement Award.
Prior to his retirement from the School District of Philadelphia in 2006, Cred held many leadership positions and received numerous awards in recognition of his long years of service. At the BBA banquet, long-time colleague, friend, and retired PA Dept. of Education Administrator Jackie Greene introduced the guest of honor by saying she has known Cred for 50 years because he was her middle school math teacher, asking “isn’t that what you all hope for as educators—that someday your students will do so well that they become your boss?”
Dobson received a standing ovation, and after the ceremony there was a line to congratulate him and take pictures.
Top Photo, l to r: Jackie Greene, Cred Dobson and BBA President Vanessa Cleaver, Ed.D.
Bottom left: Bob Sun, Jackie Greene, Nancy Kane, Dobson. Bottom right: Dobson, BBA West Regional Representative Emily Dixon and Paul Griffin, Vice President of Strategic Accounts at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.