MIAMI, FL — Longtime educator David Lazerson, who has dedicated his career to teaching students with disabilities — and whose efforts to quell racial violence in Brooklyn in the 1990s were featured in a TV movie — will be named to the National Teachers Hall of Fame.
Broward Teacher to Receive National Honor
MIAMI, FL — Longtime educator David Lazerson, who has dedicated his career to teaching students with disabilities — and whose efforts to quell racial violence in Brooklyn in the 1990s were featured in a TV movie — will be named to the National Teachers Hall of Fame.
Lazerson, who goes by ”Dr. Laz,” found out the news Tuesday morning at The Quest Center in Hollywood, where he teaches, during an Earth Day assembly. Everyone at the school had been keeping the news a secret.
”Wow!” said a beaming Lazerson. “That was not fair keeping this a secret.”
Lazerson, 57, will be inducted in June, becoming only the ninth Florida teacher named to the institution in its history.
A musician as well as a school teacher, Lazerson taught in New York and Miami-Dade before moving to the Broward public school system in 2002. He was named the 2007 Broward County Arts Teacher of the Year for his work at The Quest Center, a school for students with disabilities.
He lived in Brooklyn in 1991 when race riots erupted after a Jewish driver struck and killed a young black boy and served as a mediator between warring communities. The 2004 Showtime movie Crown Heights, with Howie Mandel playing him, was based on Lazerson’s memoir, Sharing Turf.
Yisroel Frankforter
Wow! That’s big news and a great Kidush Hashem.
Dr. Laz you rock!
chevra from Crown Heights
Go Lax; it’s good to get recognition for what one tries to do and succeeds.
Keep up the great work in all your pursuits.
Eye-ray Coral Springs
Praise be my brother
: )
GO LAZERSONS!!!!!
shimon
sweet , halivay we had a few good teachers in our schools.
i have read it was it him
did he write a book abput his life in some black school with dr D or somethink
asdf
tell me, is this the person you talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…
meir rhodes
MAZEL TOV LAZ. YOU HAVE BEEN AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL OF USE WHO WENT INTO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. CONTINUED SUCCESS.
President btwn alb -n troy
i remember you from when you lived on my block on president street. i just gave your book “sharing turf” to a friend of mine to read. yaasher koach!
ex student
meir rhodes ,do you still have the big thunder? ex student.
laz and meir are both just GREAT!!!!!