January 5, 2015
This is your invitation to nominate a teacher from your school to be considered as the representative from Henrico County Public Schools for the Gilman Teacher of the Year. Each school is required to submit a nominee for this meaningful honor.
The Henrico Education Foundation, in conjunction with Herff Jones, Inc., will sponsor the Gilman Teacher of the Year program this year. Their support means that the Gilman Teacher of the Year finalists (one from each magisterial district) will receive $500. The Gilman Teacher of the Year winner will receive $1,000. On May 6, 2015 all school-level winners, the finalists, and the countywide winner will be honored at a ceremony with members of the Foundation, Herff Jones, and the School Board. Please mark your calendar for this important event.
Nominees should be exceptionally skillful and dedicated teachers who plan to continue their careers and who have superior ability to inspire a love of learning in students of all backgrounds and abilities. They must spend 80% of their time in classroom instruction and have five or more years of teaching experience (not necessarily all in Henrico). In addition, they must have achieved continuing contract status with HCPS.
Please seek faculty input regarding the nominee from your staff. Inform your Gilman Teacher of the Year nominee as soon as your selection has been made so that adequate time is available for preparing the application. You are encouraged to support the nominee by providing clerical assistance in the preparation of the materials. A screening and interview committee will select the Henrico County Gilman Teacher of the Year.
In addition, nominees are required to send an electronic picture, either in the classroom (no student faces) or a “head shot” attached to an e-mail to Linda Thompson. These pictures will be used for publicity purposes and in a montage for the ceremony. Please make sure the name of the nominee and the school he/she represents is specified somewhere in the e-mail with the attached picture.
For clarity and fairness, the nomination packet permits only the requested information. In order to be considered, the scanned original application (in the required format), and scanned original letters of reference from persons other than the principal, must be emailed by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 2, 2014 to Linda Thompson. Please do not send copies.
Nomination applications are attached to the blog post and have been sent to principals’ secretaries via email as well.
As always, thank you for supporting the work of outstanding educators in HCPS.
Respectfully,
Steve Castle
Director of School Improvement and Professional Development
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