JEN and Berklee join to present John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year Award

The Jazz Education Network and Berklee College of Music will collaborate to present the John LaPorta Jazz Educator of the Year award. The award is named after legendary jazz educator John LaPorta who served as a distinguished professor at Berklee for more than three decades prior to his death in 2004 and played a pivotal role in the earliest stage of formalized jazz education. The award will recognize an outstanding high school or elementary school educator with a focus on jazz education and who represents the highest standards of teaching and whose results in the classroom have brought distinction to their institution and their students.