Call for Nominations
Do you know an exceptional teacher? A teacher who inspires students? A teacher who is a leader in the profession and deserves recognition for their great work with students? Here is your chance to nominate them for County Teacher of the Year!
Teachers may be nominated by students, parents, teaching colleagues, principals, superintendents or anyone from the community who wants to honor an outstanding educator. (Self-nominations and nominations by family members are not accepted) Granges who recognized (or plan to recognize) an “Educator of the Year” may want to nominate him or her for this recognition! The deadline for nominations is 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 31, 2024.
To be considered, the teacher must:
- have a minimum of five years of teaching – three of which are in Maine.
- hold the appropriate professional certification for their teaching position.
- be a certified, in good standing, PK-12 teacher in a state-accredited public school, including a career and technical and adult education center, a public charter school, or a publicly supported secondary school (a private school that enrolls 60 percent or more publicly funded students, sometimes referred to as “town academies”).
- be actively teaching students at least fifty percent of the workday at the time of nomination and during their year of recognition.
- maintain their teaching position and remain in the County for which they are selected throughout the year of recognition.
The Maine Teacher of the Year program is administered by Educate Maine in partnership with the Maine Department of Education.
The Maine State Teacher of the Year represents Maine at the national level and becomes eligible to become the National Teacher of the Year.
Please contact Kaitlin Young at Educate Maine if you have questions or want more information on the process.
Please don’t miss this opportunity to honor and recognize a great Maine Teacher! Meet the 2023 County Teachers of the Year here and learn more about the Maine Teacher of the Year program.
Some information for this post was provided by Bangor Savings Bank, a strong supporter of the program through their partnership with Educate Maine.