City of Philadelphia - File #: 070917

• File #: 070917
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 10/25/2007
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 10/25/2007
• Title: Honoring Michael Galbraith on receiving the Milken National Education Award.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Goode, Council President Verna, Councilmember Savage, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember Ramos, Councilmember Campbell, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember Kelly, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember O'Neill

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/25/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED
10/25/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
10/25/2007	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Honoring Michael Galbraith on receiving the Milken National Education Award.
Body
WHEREAS, The City Council of Philadelphia is pleased to recognize and honor teacher Michael Galbraith of the Grover Washington Jr. Middle School for receiving the Milken National Education Award; and

WHEREAS, Michael Galbraith, an eighth-grade reading specialist was cited for a journal project that encouraged students to write about poignant topics that hit close to home for many- violence, death and poverty and share them with their classmates. The Philadelphia Inquirer chronicled Galbraith's class project in an award winning five-part series; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Galbraith during the 2004-2005 school year was among the first teachers in the country to get students interested in learning by writing about their experiences. This writing approach was made famous in the movie Freedom Writers starring, Hilary Swank and was based on the real life experience of a Long Beach, California teacher; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Galbraith has been an educator for fifteen years, the last eight at Grover Washington, Jr. Middle School and besides teaching he is a literacy coach, trains fellow teachers, and is working on a book about the writing project; and

WHEREAS, The Milken National Education Award was created in 1987 by the Milken Family Foundation will have bestowed $58 million to more than 2,300 educators by the end of this school year. Award winners are selected by a blue-ribbon panel appointed by their state educational department based on exceptional educational talents both in and outside of the classroom; and

WHEREAS, October 18, 2007, Mr. Galbraith was surprised with this award along with the $25,000 prize during an assembly at the Grover Washington Jr. Middle School; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Galbraith, a married father of two young daughters, said "I want to share my good fort...