Purpose This award is presented to a district or campus administrator who recognizes the importance of technology in the teaching and learning process and actively promotes the use of technology on the campus or throughout the district.
Eligibility The TCEA Administrator of the Year award is open to all public, private, and parochial administrators with the exclusion of technology administrators and superintendents. The primary responsibility of the applicant must be acting as a principal, assistant principal, or district administrator. Nominees must be members of TCEA. (Non-members may submit membership and dues at the time of entry.) Previous nominees are eligible and encouraged to enter. Active TCEA board members are not eligible for this award.
Application Requirements
Complete the online form. Nominees will be asked to provide links to or documents supporting evidence for some items.
As part of the online application, each nominee will be asked to provide information including:
Professional vita or a link to vita online
Award and honors
Professional organizations
Additional information relating to this award
Each nominee must provide the names of three (3) professional references, one of which must be his or her immediate supervisor. The references will be contacted and asked to complete a questionnaire.
Three finalists will be chosen and must be able to attend the TCEA Convention & Exposition where the TCEA Administrator of the Year will be announced.
Nominations Click on the “Nominate Now” link. It will direct you to the TCEA Educator Awards Nomination Form. Complete the form and save to your computer. Submit the form, as well as supporting documents, via a Dropbox account. If you do not have a Dropbox account, below is the link to create an account. Once you have an account, create a folder labeled with your name and add the nomination form as well as any supporting documents to this folder. Share the folder with
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Awards The TCEA Administrator of the Year shall receive an engraved plaque and $1,000 from TCEA. Two finalists will each receive a plaque and $500. The TCEA Administrator of the Year will be announced during a private awards ceremony and a keynote session at the TCEA Convention & Exposition. The three finalists will be notified by telephone prior to the convention. Recognition of the winners will be posted to the TCEA website at www.tcea.org.
One award winner (other than Teacher of the Year) will be selected for entry in the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Outstanding Leader of the Year. For more information, please visit www.iste.org and click on Member Resources under Membership.
Applications must be submitted online on or before October 28, 2011.
Applicants will be disqualified if all information is not completed and submitted to TCEA by the deadline. A committee of TCEA board members will rate each application.
