Karen Butterfield Receives Carolyn Warner Legacy Award

FALA Founder Karen Butterfield, Ed.D, is the third recipient of the Carolyn Warner Legacy Award given by the Arizona Educational Foundation!Caron Lieber, daughter of Carolyn Warner, presented the award to Butterfield during the Arizona Educational Foundation’s Arizona Teacher of the Year Awards on October 16th. “Like our mother, Karen’s lifelong dedication and advocacy for public education is inspiring,” stated Lieber. “Her career includes an expansive level of impact on teachers, administrators, and students, both in Arizona and nationwide. My family and I feel Karen is an ideal recipient and a great model of our mother’s legacy.” Butterfield, who is the 1993 Arizona Teacher of the Year, now serves as State-Level Technical Assistance Specialist for WestEd, providing support to the Bureau of Indian Education and to the state departments of education in Oklahoma and New Mexico. https://www.azedfoundation.org/cwawardees