South Dakota Teacher of the Year
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South Dakota Teacher of the Year (TOY)
The South Dakota Teacher of the Year Program is made possible by the National Teacher of the Year Program, which is sponsored by the ING Foundation and Target is a project of The Council of Chief State School Officers, in partnership with the University of Phoenix and People to People Ambassador Programs.
Teacher of the Year Nomination Process
The goal of the TOY program is to recognize and honor the tremendous contributions of outstanding classroom teachers. Note: a classroom teacher is a person who has a class of his/her own and spends at least three or more hours per day, five days a week, for six or more calendar months during a school year in a classroom teaching students. School counselors, school psychologists, and school social workers are NOT eligible.
Each TOY candidate should:
A school district may choose to set up its own selection process for choosing a District Teacher of the Year, or use guidelines created by the Department of Education. The guidelines can be altered to fit a district’s needs.
Each District Teacher of the Year becomes a nominee for his or her district’s Regional Teacher of the Year Award. If the District TOY is selected as the Regional TOY, he or she becomes a nominee for the South Dakota TOY. If chosen as the South Dakota TOY, he/she then becomes a candidate for the National TOY.
The South Dakota TOY will be announced at the Systems Change Conference and will honor the new South Dakota Teacher of the Year and Regional Teachers of the Year.
CONTACT
Lanette Johnston, Department of Education, 605-773-8415
The South Dakota Teacher of the Year Program is made possible by the National Teacher of the Year Program, which is sponsored by the ING Foundation and Target is a project of The Council of Chief State School Officers, in partnership with the University of Phoenix and People to People Ambassador Programs.
Teacher of the Year Nomination Process
The goal of the TOY program is to recognize and honor the tremendous contributions of outstanding classroom teachers. Note: a classroom teacher is a person who has a class of his/her own and spends at least three or more hours per day, five days a week, for six or more calendar months during a school year in a classroom teaching students. School counselors, school psychologists, and school social workers are NOT eligible.
Each TOY candidate should:
• Have a superior ability to inspire students of ALL backgrounds and abilities to learn;
• Be an exceptionally skilled and dedicated classroom teacher from a state accredited school, pre-kindergarten through grade twelve;
• Be planning to continue in an active teaching status (supervisory and administrative responsibilities are secondary considerations);
• Have the respect and admiration of students, parents, and colleagues;
• Play an active and useful role in the community as well as in the school; and
• Be poised, articulate, and have the energy to withstand the demanding schedule that would accompany selection as the South Dakota Teacher of the Year.
• Be an exceptionally skilled and dedicated classroom teacher from a state accredited school, pre-kindergarten through grade twelve;
• Be planning to continue in an active teaching status (supervisory and administrative responsibilities are secondary considerations);
• Have the respect and admiration of students, parents, and colleagues;
• Play an active and useful role in the community as well as in the school; and
• Be poised, articulate, and have the energy to withstand the demanding schedule that would accompany selection as the South Dakota Teacher of the Year.
A school district may choose to set up its own selection process for choosing a District Teacher of the Year, or use guidelines created by the Department of Education. The guidelines can be altered to fit a district’s needs.
Each District Teacher of the Year becomes a nominee for his or her district’s Regional Teacher of the Year Award. If the District TOY is selected as the Regional TOY, he or she becomes a nominee for the South Dakota TOY. If chosen as the South Dakota TOY, he/she then becomes a candidate for the National TOY.
The South Dakota TOY will be announced at the Systems Change Conference and will honor the new South Dakota Teacher of the Year and Regional Teachers of the Year.
| 2012 Teacher of the Year |
| Previous Teacher of the Year |
2005 Jensi Kellogg-Andrus |
2004 Roxie Ahlbrecht |
2003 Linda McKay |
2002 Jeffrey Lukens |
2001 Marilyn Herz |
2000 Bill Zubke |
1999 Kristine Malloy |
1998 Denise Bryan |
1997 Judy Kroll |
1996 Jacqueline Omland |
1995 Rebecca Ekeland |
1994 Glenna Fouberg |
1993 Julie Ashworth |
1992 Lennis Larson |
1991 Deborah Van Pelt Platt |
1990 Carole Kasen |
1989 Linda Hillestad |
1988 Richard Meier |
1987 Darell Pribyl |
CONTACT
Lanette Johnston, Department of Education, 605-773-8415
