Four alumni from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) are recipients of the 2019 CEHD Distinguished Alumni Awards. This award honors CEHD alumni who have excelled in their fields and contributed greatly to their communities. Award recipients belong to a wide range of academic disciplines and career paths, but all are individuals who have made profound impacts in the lives of children, youth, families, schools, and organizations. 

A total of 14 alumni from the college will be honored November 21 at the McNamara Alumni Center. The four recipients from C&I are:

• Alice Moormann, BS in Art Education, 1960. Moormann has dedicated more than five decades to the important work of voter education and participation in democracy. She became a volunteer with the League of Women Voters Minneapolis at the time of the Vietnam War as a way to learn more about the political process. Since then she has served in many positions for the Minneapolis and statewide leagues, including volunteer coordinator, nominations chair, and co-president twice.

• David Vick, BS in Elementary Education, 1967;  MA, Educational Administration ‘73; PhD Educational Administration ‘87. David Vick has the  most CEHD degrees of anyone. He has a bachelor’s, master’s, doctorate, and specialist certificate in elementary education and administration. As a superintendent, he helped in the passage of a building referendum, resulting in selling an outdated school, destroying two old buildings to construct a LEED Certified elementary school, and remodeling an old middle school.

• Charlie Miller, PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, 2007. Miller helped to establish and lead the Institute for Design Innovation in CEHD, now known as Educational Technology Innovations or ETI. His early groundwork positioned CEHD as a pioneer in sharing research-based best practices and interventions with teachers. He co-founded Flipgrid—a video platform for recording and sharing student voices which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018. Today, Charlie is Partner General Manager of Flipgrid at Microsoft.

• Brad Hosack, MA in Curriculum and Instruction, 2010. Bradford Hosack, a lifelong learner, educator, and inventor, is dedicated to changing the way students learn through the design and development of educational software. As a graduate student in CEHD, he teamed up with Charles Miller to co-create Flipgrid—a video platform for recording and sharing student voices. Hosack is currently Vice President of Engineering and Product Technology for Carnegie Learning. 

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