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Winning is as easy as One, Two, Three
TSTA Instructional Awards recognize local associations for activity and involvement in their school districts and in TSTA. There are three different levels of achievement:
1. Instructional Award
2. Executive Director’s Award; and
3. President’s Award
Instructional Awards are noncompetitive and designed to recognize any local association for planned or enhanced activities and accomplishments that incorporate certain strands of NEA’s Priority Schools Initiative into local planning.
NEA’s Priority School Initiative includes three focus areas: (1) school capacity; (2) student achievement; and (3) teacher quality. Criteria for award levels are as follows:
Instructional Award – completion of at least three activities in one focus area.
Executive Director’s Award – completion of at least three activities in one focus area and at least one activity in each of the other two focus areas.
President’s Award – completion of at least three activities in one focus area and at least two activities in each of the other two focus areas.
Important deadlines:
1. November 1 – Instructional Plan must be submitted to TSTA’s Center for Teaching and Learning. The plan should identify the activities the local association intends to accomplish in one or more areas of the Priority Schools Initiative. It should also identify the level of award the local is seeking.
2. March 1 – Planned activities must be completed.
3. March 15 (postmark deadline) – Documentation showing that the planned activities were completed must be sent to TSTA’s Center for Teaching and Learning. The documentation must be submitted in a format available for presentation at workshops or conferences. It can be in any of the following formats:
· Videos
· Newspaper Articles
· Newsletters
· CD-ROMS
· Websites
· or other medium that can be put on display.
Local associations who meet the criteria will be recognized at the TSTA House of Delegates in April.
Instructional Awards will be given with distinction to those local associations that also show a ten percent increase in association membership or a 25% increase in PAC contributions or PAC Continuing Contributors.
For more information, call 877-ASK-TSTA and ask for Teaching and Learning.
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