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Lara Bryant receives Distinguished Service Award from Geography group

January 2008—Lara Bryant, Ph.D. candidate in Geographic Education, has been awarded a 2007 Distinguished Service Award from the Texas Alliance for Geographic Education (TAGE). The award recognizes Bryant’s work in helping to develop the San Antonio-Austin area regional Alliance group (SAGE), which is part of the TAGE. She will receive the award at TAGE’s spring meeting San Antonio.

SAGE, formed in 2005, was created to provide regional training and networking opportunities for geographic educators in the San Antonio-Austin area, in an effort to enhance geographic education in the K-12 school system. Since SAGE was formed two years ago, Bryant has served on the group’s conference planning committee, designing presenter forms, issuing calls for presentations, and creating conference schedules. She has written articles about SAGE for the TAGE newsletter, and is helping to create bylaws for the organization.

Bryant hopes to receive her Ph.D. in Geographic Education from Texas State in May 2010. She plans to teach at the university level and to conduct research on the use of Geographic Information Systems in K-12. She would also like to continue training teachers and consulting on the in-service training of geography teachers.