The Brownell Award 2009

CEEF President, Christine Mackenzie, Rebecca Bean, and Elaine Brownell

In giving the Brownell Award, CEEF recognizes the staff member who has done an extraordinary job in implementing a CEEF grant.  This year we have the pleasure of recognizing a recipient who has been with us all along the way, receiving one of the first CEEF grants in 2002, one of the last grants given this past cycle, and others in-between. 

Rebecca Bean, CEMS music teacher, keeps each grant alive and uses successive grants to expand on curriculum that she has developed in response to grant monies received.  She is always full of energy, is rarely seen without a smile on her face and students around her.  She shares her talents with her choral students, and this includes fifth and sixth graders who come in for practice before school, a testament to the success of the program.  Rebecca also teaches music to students who do not participate in band; these lessons are varied and include instrument instruction as well as song and movement.  Most recently, CEEF partially funded a trip to Ghana in which Rebecca learned about history-telling in song.  This trip served to enrich the already successful drumming curriculum started with another CEEF grant.  

Rebecca is a dedicated, committed teacher who has certainly enriched the lives of her students.  To find out more about Rebecca’s grant history, please visit our grant history pages.  To see more photos from the award presentation, please visit our gallery.