Helena Education Foundation

Nominate a Distinguished Achiever Teachers, it's time to nominate students as Distinguished Achievers for the 2010 Celebration of Excellence. Educators should identify Distinguished Achievers based on excellence in a specific curricular area, leadership, overcoming obstacles to achievement or service. To nominate a student today, please use our online form.

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HEF Receives Friend of Education Award The Helena Education Foundation received the Friends of Education Award at the 59th annual Montana Association of Elementary and Middle School Principals conference held last week in Missoula. Broadwater School Principal Sue Johnson nominated HEF for the award. “After moving to Helena last year I saw this group that raises all this money for our teachers and students, they were a perfect nominee,” Johnson said. “They go above and beyond, and what they do benefits the entire community.

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Share Your Love of Education Share your love for education, and help provide opportunities to Helena students to achieve their full potential. Support the Helena Education Foundation. The Helena Education Foundation is in its seventh year of enhancing the public education of students and teachers in Montana's capital city. HEF sponsors a wide array of community and school events annually: the Celebration of Excellence, Hot Topics in Science, Vigilante Academy, Trading Places, Great Conversations, Fabulous Firsts and Carnival Classic.

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Share Your Love of Education

Share your love for education, and help provide opportunities to Helena students to achieve their full potential. Support the Helena Education Foundation.

The Helena Education Foundation is in its seventh year of enhancing the public education of students and teachers in Montana's capital city. HEF sponsors a wide array of community and school events annually: the Celebration of Excellence, Hot Topics in Science, Vigilante Academy, Trading Places, Great Conversations, Fabulous Firsts and Carnival Classic.

Leadership Institute

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The Foundation's Issues Institutes provide a forum for Helena public school teachers to discuss current national issues with leading professionals around the country, their peers from all grade levels and curricular areas, and people from the Helena area community. The Institutes are designed for personal as well as professional enrichment and teachers are encouraged to attend based on their interests, not their curriculum needs.

Great Teachers Get Tickets to Great Conversations

Helena has some great educators and six of them were recently recognized by the Helena Education Foundation. IR Photo by Lisa Kunkel HEF surprised Katie Meyer at Helena Middle School; Lisa Parker at Helena High School; Mike Agostinelli at Smith Elementary; Kari Wald at Bryant Elementary; Paul Phillips at Capital High School; and Deb Jacobsen at Hawthorne Elementary with the Let's Talk About Great Teachers awards.

HEF Executive Director Lisa Cordingley said the educators are selected by the foundation through feedback from families, community members and administrators.

"Teachers are chosen by HEF for their support of the goals of the foundation and commitment to the mission," Cordingley said. "Some get there by their actions engaging in our programs, others get there because they do all these things without us and we want to celebrate the outcomes."