Application opens: February 3, 2025
Application Due: March 21, 2025 at 5 PM
The Teacher Excellence Award is designed to recognize teachers who have demonstrated an unusual commitment to inspire students to reach for difficult and lofty goals. Persons nominated will have earned the respect of students, parents and peers through sustained effort, high moral standards and the likelihood of enduring beneficial effects on the students with which they have worked.
Any current full-time teacher of a public school within Henry County is eligible for nomination. Any persons including parents, students, peers and citizens of the community may make nominations. Someone who has had a direct experience with the nominee must submit the online nomination form.
Criteria
Preference will be given to nominations with the following characteristics:
- The basis for nomination is consistent with the aims of the School Corporation (inspirational teaching, coaching, counseling or other service to students).
- The nomination addresses the extraordinary aspects of the nominee (exceptional creativity, extraordinary commitment to students, enduring interest and encouragement for the attainment of worthy objectives, exemplary character, role model, etc.).
- The nomination contains examples of the worthiness of the nominee.
View Teacher Excellence Award Guidelines
Nomination Procedures
Please use the form below to submit your nomination for the Teacher Excellence Award by March 21, 2025 at 5 pm. Current and retired educators from outside the county will review and score the nominations. The teacher receiving the highest score will be presented the Teacher Excellence Award at their school’s honor day program.
List of Winners
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2006 | Debra Hicks |
| 2007 | Judy Hubbard |
| 2008 | Stephanie DeLoughery |
| 2009 | Rick Penn |
| 2010 | April Isaacs |
| 2011 | Tracy Young |
| 2012 | Art Edinger |
| 2013 | Carissa Brammer |
| 2014 | Nancy Wadman |
| 2015 | Cheri Estelle |
| 2016 | Shanna Smucker |
| 2017 | Lou Nell Richardson |
| 2018 | Angela Miller |
| 2019 | Emily Whaley |
| 2020 | Angie Talbott |
| 2021 | Michelle Fries |
| 2022 | Matthew Hurst |