Mark Love
Mark is a Reading Recovery teacher and a Language Arts Reading Specialist at Lakenheath Elementary School in England. He earned his M.A. in Education from California Lutheran College. We CARE, a service learning school improvement theme conceived, planned, and implemented under Mark's leadership has been responsible for transforming LES into a nurturing learning community. As part of the structure for We CARE, the school sponsors a school-wide charity, United Kingdom Guide Dogs for the Blind. Scrapbooks of photos and children's writings of their experiences with the guide dogs are proudly displayed. Colleagues remark, "Mark's continual search to improve education has not only had an impact on his practices but on those of the entire school." "You will be hard pressed to find another applicant of Mark's caliber."