This year the Lewis Award will be celebrated in person for the first time in 2 years. A Mass will be held at Blessed Sacrament to celebrate this year’s recipient, Kelley Carrigan Champion later this month.

In the May, both Kelly Champion and Tina Jo Isenbarger, of St. Ann School in Fayetteville will be honored.

Tina Isenbarger was the winner of the Lewis Award in 2020. Due to Covid this celebration was postponed.

The Lewis Award Committee is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2021-2022 Msgr. Lewis award is Kelley Champion of Blessed Sacrament School in Burlington, NC.

Mrs. Champion is a middle school language arts teacher with more than 25 years of experience. Congratulations to Mrs. Champion and all of the Blessed Sacrament Knights!

Blessed Sacrament School was founded in 1935 and serves students from pre-school through 8th grade. Blessed Sacrament is certified by COGNIA as a STEAM school
where students learn through problem-solving experiences and science, technology, engineering and math are integrated throughout the curriculum.

The Lewis Award for Excellence in Teaching is pleased to announce the finalists for the 21/22 school year. These three finalists were chosen from 19 candidates nominated by schools across the Diocese of Raleigh. The winner for this year will be announced in March.

From the Lewis Award Committee

We are all hopeful that 2022 will be a bit more normal so the Lewis committee is planning on doing classroom observations this year.  Of course, none were done last year.

Later this month the 3 finalists will be announced for the

Teacher of the Year Award.

These 3 will be chosen from the 19 applications received.  

Watch for the announcement.

49 Nominations were received this year

Thank you to all who took the time to recognize a teacher in our diocese.

For teachers to know that people recognize all they do for our diocese is encouraging, especially during this difficult year.

Finalists will be announced in the new year.