The Director of the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America, Dr. Mary Ann Re, is delighted to announce that, recognizing the importance of acknowledging and motivating excellence in the teaching of Italian, the Coccia family and Lawrence Inserra, Jr., have generously increased to $3,000 the monetary prize associated with the Teaching Award.

These funds, which would be received by the recipient's school, are to be used exclusively for the development and implementation of Italian language and cultural programming in the classroom of the K-12 teacher selected to receive this prestigious award.

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