PMSA Awards Information:

Ann Moniot
Outstanding
 Middle Level Teacher
 
Application 
(due by Dec.15th )
Joan Jarrett
Outstanding
Middle Level Students

Application
(due by Dec 15th)
Promising Practitioners Award
New Teacher
Application
(due by Feb. 15th)

 Outstanding
Administrator Award 
 Application
(due by Dec. 15th)

 
Learning to Teach-
Teaching to Learn
Student Teacher Award
Applicaton
(due by Feb. 15th)

 Executive Director's Partnership Award

 
President's
William Alexander Award
Outstanding
PMSA Member

Schools to Watch

 Advocate for Public Education Award:
Legislative Award

 

 

Previous Award Winners:   Previous Award Winners


Descriptions of Awards




Joan Jarrett – Outstanding Middle Level Students (due by 12/15)

This award is presented to one boy and one girl from each of PMSA’s five regions that have displayed leadership abilities, good citizenship, and have made a positive contribution to their middle school and community. A $100 donation will be made in their name to a charity of their choice. Each student and their parents will be recognized at a special ceremony at their school. 
 


Promising Practitioners Award : New Teacher Award (due by 2/15) 

This award is presented to teachers who are just beginning their middle school careers. These beginning teachers have made a positive impact on both their school and community. They incorporate effective middle level practices in their everyday teaching. Each PMSA member school has the opportunity to nominate up to three teachers yearly to receive this distinction. Each participant will receive a certificate at the PMSA Professional Development Institute’s Monday luncheon.



Outstanding Administrator Award (due by 12/15)
By establishing this award in 2004-05, PMSA sought to honor administrators who value, understand and support middle level education that promotes powerful learning for young adolescents. 
APPLICATION: Outstanding Administrator Award



Learning to Teach & Teaching to Learn: Student Teacher Award  (due by 2/15) 

This award is presented to outstanding student teachers or interns. PMSA wants to recognize teaching candidates who have student taught in a middle school and have demonstrated both a commitment to middle level teaching as well as an awareness of young adolescent development. Any student teacher or intern who has completed his/her student teaching in the Fall or preceding Spring is eligible for this award. Each PMSA Institutional or Individual member may nominate one student teacher per middle school. These novice teachers will be recognized at the PMSA Professional Development Institute Monday luncheon. They will receive a certificate, pin and a one-year PMSA Individual membership. They will also receive a complementary Monday PDI registration.
APPLICATION: Learning to Teach & Teaching to Learn: Student Teacher Award


Executive Director's Partnership Award

This award is presented to an organization or business partner
 who supports and helps promote middle level education.




William Alexander Award: Outstanding PMSA Member
This award is presented, at the discretion of the PMSA President, to an individual who has made a significant, positive contribution to middle level education in the state of Pennsylvania.



Schools to Watch

The mission of the Pennsylvania Don Eichhorn Schools: Schools to Watch Program is to assist Pennsylvania middle grades schools build capacity and recognize schools achieving academic excellence, based on the rigorous 37 criteria established by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform.

 
Advocate for Public Education Award: Legislative Award

This award is presented a legislator who advocates for public education and has help promote middle level education.
  

 
Ann Moniot Outstanding Middle Level Teacher

Ann Moniot was a very dynamic educator from the city of Pittsburgh. She was one of the original Board Members of PMSA. She was also the second president of the National Middle School Association. This award is presented to a middle level educator that has made professional contributions that have positively influenced middle level education as well as middle level students.  DUE 12/15

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