Council Awards

Please join us for the district-wide PTA/PTSA Awards Reception
Tuesday, March 16
Skyline High School theater
6:30 to 8:30 pm

The Issaquah PTSA Council will present 4 awards, as follows:

Golden Acorn Award

The Issaquah PTSA Council honors outstanding volunteer service for children by awarding the Golden Acorn Award annually. The winners of this award are PTA/PTSA members who volunteer in ways that meet the mission of PTA: promoting the health, welfare, safety and education of ALL children and youth in our schools and community.

Please use this form to submit your nomination(s) for the Issaquah PTSA Council Golden Acorn Award(s). Application deadline: February 24, 2010.

(past recipients)

Outstanding Advocate Award

Every year the Council honors Outstanding Volunteer Advocacy for children by awarding the Outstanding Advocate Award. This award is, above all, a PTSA award whose winners volunteer in ways that meet the mission of the PTSA: promoting the health, welfare, safety and education of ALL children and youth in the schools and community through active legislative advocacy.

Please use this form to submit your nomination for the Issaquah PTSA Council Outstanding Advocate Award. Application deadline: February 24, 2010.

(past recipients)

Outstanding Service Award

Occasionally, but not every year, the Council presents the Outstanding Service Award. This award is presented to a PTA/PTSA member who works for children and youth beyond the bounds of a job, PTA, or a specific school community. This honor goes to a person who has shown concern for all children across the district and who has volunteered his/her time to help them achieve their potential.

Please use this form to submit your nomination for the Issaquah PTSA Council Outstanding Service Award. Application deadline: February 24, 2010.

(past recipients)

Outstanding Educator Award

The Outstanding Educator Award was created by PTSAs to recognize individuals who have gone beyond the normal expectations of their job to make outstanding contributions to enhance the education of children. An Outstanding Educator can be a teacher, specialist, assistant, support staff, custodian, bus driver, administrator or community member.

Please use this form to submit your nomination for the Issaquah PTSA Council Outstanding Educator Award. Application deadline: March 30, 2010.

The Council Outstanding Educator Award will be presented at the PTA Spring Luncheon on Thursday, May 20 at Tibbett's Manor.

(past recipients)

All award winners receive the award pin and a special certificate from the Washington State PTA. Their names will be engraved on a plaque in the Issaquah School District main office. The Council also contributes $65 in the winner’s name to the Washington State PTA Scholarship Foundation, which provides scholarships to selected high school students entering post-secondary education.

We would like you to participate in the selection of our award recipient(s) through your recommendations. Our Award committee will make the final selection.

Feel free to contact the committee chairs with any questions you may have:

• Deborah Parsons at (425) 829-3232 or deborah@theparsons.com
• Kimberly Montague at (425) 277-1093 or mkmontague@hotmail.com

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Washington State PTA Awards Information

Awards List

• Individual Award
  • Leadership Academy
• Volunteer Service Awards – fees go to state PTA scholarship fund
  •  Golden Acorn
  •  Honorary Life Membership
  •  Outstanding Educator Award
  •  Outstanding Advocate
  •  Outstanding Service – Region, Council, State level only
•  Local Unit/Council Awards
  • 100% Membership
  • Communication
  • Outstanding Newsletter
  • PTAs Taking Significant Action
  • Standards of Excellence
  • Honor Unit
  • Outstanding Local Unit
• National Awards
  • PTA Unit Achievement Award
  • Other National PTA Awards

Individual Award – Leadership Academy

• Due March 1, 2010
• Bronze, Silver, Gold and Crystal Levels
• Done on a point basis – points for leadership positions, conference/workshop attendance
• Bronze = 75 points
• Applicants are entitled to all points in a given year – same position in different years earns points for each year
• Points for attending workshops, conferences, convention for each date
• Officer and board member at same local unit receives points for one position
• Officer and board member at separate local units receives points for both positions

Volunteer Services Awards - Choosing your Honorees

• No due date by State, Council due date in February for District reception
• Number of Awards
  • In Standing Rules
  • No state rule about number
• Awards Committee – often past honorees serve, clarifies for members how to nominate candidates, distributes and collects forms, chooses honorees, president ex-officio member
• Awards for service in past year – encourages volunteers to give as much in coming years, doesn’t have to be officer or board member, reward graduation parents with honorary life membership
• Nominations from your membership
• Give awards very publicly!! – strive to offer these at well attended events, publish in newsletter
• Award order forms: www.wastatepta.org, click on Leadership Resource, Login using PTAmember and leader, click on Awards
• Award rubric and nomination form for Golden Acorn: Here

Washington State PTA Awards – honor your entire PTSA, honorees announced at Convention, you must nominate your unit in order to win – due date March 1, 2010

• 100% Membership –
  • Must submit form to receive. Requires membership number, FTE enrollment number and principal signature.
• Communication –
  • identify & recognize all forms of effective communication from PTAs to PTA members and the community about programs, projects, activities, and issues affecting children. These awards are not limited to any specific medium and may include web sites, email, voice mail, public access television, communication through/with partners and more
• Outstanding Newsletter –
  • PTA newsletters are judged and presented awards in 5 categories for units and 1 for councils. Categories by student enrollment.
• PTAs Taking Significant Action –
  • purpose of program is to recognize the accomplishments of units and councils across the state that present programs, projects and activities that show significant originality, involvement, potential, usefulness and results. Selected programs will reflect how projects and activities are implemented by small and large, affluent and poor, city and rural PTAs.
• Standards of Excellence –
  • the purpose it to provide PTA local units with a set of standards that define qualities of excellence; provide training to local units on attainment of those standards; identify, recognize and honor those units that achieve the standards.
• Honor Units –
  • a local unit which has, in its service to children, gone significantly beyond the attainment of standards of excellence and has demonstrated the kind of exceptional qualities that merit replication by others.
• Outstanding Local Unit – selected from honor units

Award order forms: www.wastatepta.org, click on Leadership Resource, Login using PTAmember and leader, click on Awards

National PTA Awards

• PTA Unit Achievement Award and more: www.pta.org, click on PTA Programs, click on Awards

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Past Award Recipients

PTSA COUNCIL GOLDEN ACORN RECIPIENTS

PTSA COUNCIL OUTSTANDING ADVOCATE AWARD

PTSA COUNCIL OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD

PTSA COUNCIL OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR AWARD

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