As part of a revamped statewide program, ESD 105 has opened nominations for our first Regional Classified School Employee of the Year! Applications are due to ESD 105 no later than Friday, January 8, 2010.
This new award is open to all school and district employees who are categorized as “classified” – which may include your school’s secretaries, paraprofessionals, cooks, bus drivers, custodians, and payroll officers. The winner of the ESD 105 regional award will serve as our area’s nominee for OSPI’s 2010 Washington Classified School Employee of the Year (which previously was called the Classified Employee Excellence Award). The state award will be announced in the spring.
The committee for the statewide award will be convened by OSPI Supt. Randy Dorn and will be comprised of education professionals, parents, and/or members of educational associations. This group will review the nine nominees from each of Washington’s ESDs based on each candidate’s professional biography, outstanding work performance, professional leadership and collaboration, and other unique qualities or circumstances.
To nominate someone from your school for our ESD 105 Regional Classified School Employee of the Year, please download and fill out the:
• Background Information Form
• Application and Nominator Form
(Note: For the Application Form, the nominated employee will need to submit: 1-2 page double-spaced responses to three essay questions; a resume; and letters of recommendation from an immediate supervisor, a colleague, and a parent or student.)
Anybody may nominate a classified employee from their school or district. Nominators may present the Background Information and Application/Nominator forms directly to the classified employee they would like to nominate. (The process does not necessarily need to initiate with a school principal or school district superintendent.) Completed application materials (which will include the signature of the school district superintendent and a letter of recommendation from an immediate supervisor) should be forwarded directly to ESD 105. There is no limit on the number of classified employees who may apply from a school district.
Please send your completed applications to: ESD 105, David Goehner - Public Information Officer, 33 S. 2nd Avenue, Yakima, WA 98908. All materials must be received no later than January 8, 2010.
