IRP Fellow Shayla Harris receives George Foster Peabody Award
By IRP Staff, April 04, 2007
Spring 2003 IRP Fellow Shayla Harris received the George Foster Peabody Award for "The Education of Ms. Groves," an hour-long documentary about a first-year teacher at a tough urban middle school in Atlanta, Georgia. The documentary aired on Dateline NBC in August 2006.
Harris spent a full school year following English teacher Monica Groves and her sixth grade class at Jean Childs Young Middle School. Groves works as part of the "Teach for America" program which recruits college graduates to teach in low-income communities.
The documentary production team consisted of correspondent Hoda Kotb and co-producers Izhar Harpaz and Harris, who shot most of the more than 100 hours of footage for the documentary.