With the goal of enhancing children’s learning through the support of exemplary teaching, the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation was launched in 1972 as a private, not-for-profit international operating foundation that creates and directs its own programs. A catalyst for excellence in education, the Foundation has developed numerous education and arts programs in the United States and abroad. The Foundation currently directs early childhood teaching awards and an urban early literacy program that includes a traveling children’s museum-on-wheels. The Foundation is in Highland Park, Illinois

Highland Park, Illinois

Highland Park is a suburban municipality in Lake County, Illinois, United States, about north of downtown Chicago. As of 2009, the population is 33,492. Highland Park is one of several municipalities located on the North Shore of the Chicago Metropolitan Area.-Overview:Highland Park was founded...

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Foundation Programs

• Kohl McCormick StoryBus
  Kohl McCormick StoryBus
  The Kohl McCormick StoryBus is a children's literacy museum on wheels that visits schools and community events in the Chicago area. Housed inside a 37-foot Winnebago, the bus promotes reading to students at the kindergarten and pre-k levels...
  
  , 2000 - present
• Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards
  Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards
  The Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards honors five outstanding Chicago area early childhood educators each year. The selection process begins each fall with an open call for nominees. Each nominee must be a full time Chicago early childhood teacher with at least five years experience...
  
  , 1996 – present
• Kohl McCormick Academy of Outstanding Educators
  Kohl McCormick Academy of Outstanding Educators
  The Kohl McCormick Academy of Outstanding Educators is an honorary organization whose members are recipients of the Kohl International Teaching Awards and the Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards. The Kohl International Teaching Awards were given each year from 1985 to 1994 by the Dolores...
  
  , 1985 - present
• Kohl International Teaching Awards
  Kohl International Teaching Awards
  The Kohl International Teaching Awards honored elementary and high school teachers as well as media and lifetime contributors to the field of education. The Dolores Kohl Education Foundation gave the awards between 1985 and 1994. The awards went to Chicago-area teachers, as well as national and...
  
  , 1985 - 1994
• Kohl Children's Museum
  Kohl Children's Museum
  Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago is a hands-on learning laboratory for children ages birth to 8. All of the exhibits and programs are aligned to the Illinois State Learning Standards and are designed to make learning fun and interesting for young children....
  
  , Wilmette, Illinois, 1985 – 2000
• Kohl Teacher Centers, Illinois and Israel, 1972 -1988

Founder

Dolores Kohl, President and CEO, is the founder of the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation. Kohl’s work focuses on early childhood education, with a current emphasis on literacy efforts for low-income urban families. Published works include Gladly We Teach; Ideas in Social Studies; Ideas in Math; Teacher Centers in the '80s; Language Arts; and Teaching Soviet Children.

External links

• Dolores Kohl Education Foundation
• Kohl McCormick StoryBus
• Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards
• Kohl Children's Museum