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Purpose

To recognize educators who have made the highest meritorious contributions to the improvement, promotion, development and progress of career and technical education.

Criteria

The award will be presented to individuals who have made contributions or achieved prominence above salaried position assignments at the local, state, regional and national levels. Nominees who have received recognition outside of their field of work and those who have made contributions of national significance will be most highly rated. Nominees must be active members of the Association for Career and Technical Education. Only under unusual circumstances will more than five such awards be presented each year.

Eligibility

This award is given to individuals who are currently in the field of education or who have spent a significant part of their professional lives in the field of education. Individuals who have received special honors or recognition as teachers, counselors or administrators, who have held key state and national professional offices or committee appointments, had major professional publications or made any other significant contribution to the field of career and technical education will be most highly considered for this award.

Evaluation Criteria

The nominees will be evaluated on the following criteria:

1. Local contributions, including honors or recognitions, professional offices and committee appointments. Evaluation based on a possible 10 points.
2. State/Regional contributions, including honors or recognitions, professional offices and committee appointments. Evaluation based on a possible 20 points.
3. National contributions, including honors or recognitions, professional offices and committee appointments. Evaluation based on a possible 30 points.
4. Publications. Evaluation based on a possible 10 points.
5. Significant contributions to the field of career and technical education. Evaluation based on a possible 30 points.

Application Procedures

All nominations must come from ACTE members. Each nominee must be endorsed or sponsored by an association, agency, group, several individuals or a combination of these.

A nomination dossier must be developed for each nominee as follows:

1. Form A (Page 1)
2. Outstanding Accomplishments of the Nominee (Page 2): List the contributions and achievements of the nominee that have advanced career and technical education. List pertinent information that will clearly indicate the nominee's contributions beyond his or her job assignment. List in order of significance. Information should be brief, to the point and limited to one page.
3. Support information (Pages 3-7). This should be no more than one page in each of the five sections as follows:
   • Section A – Local Contributions.
   • Section B – State/Regional Contributions.
   • Section C – National Contributions.
   • Section D – Publications.
   • Section E – Significant Contributions to Field.
4. Letters of support, limited to a maximum of ten pages (Pages 8-17). Letters should be one page in length. Suggested endorsers might include: political leaders, professional association leaders, business and industrial leaders, educational leaders, civic leaders, parents and students.
5. One photograph of the nominee. The photograph is used for publicity purposes only.

Applicants should submit information written in the 3rd person context rather than the 1st. Events should be dated and listed with the most recent submitted first. All materials must be word processed or typewritten on 8-1/2 X 11 sheets with 3/4" margins, left, right, top and bottom. Applicants are strongly encouraged to send the dossiers electronically. All materials must be submitted at the same time as a complete package. No supplementary materials may be submitted; items not outlined above will be discarded before judging. All procedures must be followed for an application to be considered. Applications that do not follow these procedures will be rejected and returned.

Nominations can be submitted by:

Mail: Executive Director, Association for Career and Technical Education, 1410 King Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314.

Deadline

All nominations must be received at ACTE headquarters by May 5, 2008.