Each fall, Hillsdale College awards the Salvatori Prize for Excellence in Teaching to a teacher at a private or charter K-12 school that offers a classical education in keeping with the guidelines of Hillsdale’s Charter School Initiative and of Hillsdale Academy, the College’s private K-12 school. The 2012 Salvatori Prize was awarded to Jason Barney, a Latin teacher at Clapham School in Wheaton, Illinois, who accepted the prize and a $25,000 check for his school at a ceremony at Hillsdale College on November 12, 2012.