Anita Jane Stuckey Turner Los Angeles Unified Schools

Motivational speaker, award-winning teacher, and middle school principal Anita Moultrie Turner offers a background that includes classroom experience in the Los Angeles Public Schools; degrees in curriculum and instruction, human/child development, and special education for the deaf and hard of hearing; administrative and secondary teaching credentials; and staff development/teacher trainer experience. Her awards include "Teacher of the Year" (Crenshaw High School), "Most Outstanding Teacher" (Washington Prep High School), "Top Ten Educators in Los Angeles" (Channel 11 News), a nomination as California Teacher of the Year, and an Emmy nomination as co-producer of the Channel 58-KLCS instructional video series "Teachers and Their Coaches."