To promote educational excellence, the Alabama Education Association serves as an advocate for its members and leads the advancement of equitable and quality public education in Alabama.
Awards & Nominations
The AEA Administrator Board is accepting nominations for four awards:
- Working Assistant Principal Award
- Outstanding Principal Award
- Outstanding Central Office Administrator Award
- Outstanding Superintendent Award
These awards are given to emphasize the contributions of an administrator in promoting public education and to recognize an individual who shows outstanding accomplishments in one or more of the following areas:
- Innovations to support the day-to-day educational process
- Professional achievements in his/her classification
- Involvement in promoting public education in the community
- Enhancement of the image of educators in the Association, work site, or community
NOMINATION FORMS:
AEA Outstanding Principal Award
AEA Working Assistant Principal Award
AEA Outstanding Central Office Administrator Award
AEA Outstanding Superintendent Award
The ESP Division is requesting nominations for the following awards. Each award will be presented at the 2025 ESP Conference in February.
Sherry Tucker Leadership Award:
Recognizes an ESP who shows outstanding leadership. Must be an Education Support Professional (ESP) employee and shall have a minimum of 5 years membership and has shown outstanding leadership on the local, state and/or national level.
Pioneer Award:
An ESP with 5+ years of membership and outstanding contributions to the Association.
Doris Strode Champion Award:
An individual who has shown service and dedication to ESP at the local, state, and national levels.
Shining Star Award:
Recognizes an individual who shows outstanding accomplishments in one or more of the following areas:
- Innovations to support the day-to-day educational process
- Professional achievements in his/her classification
- Involvement in promoting public education in the community
- Enhancement of the image of ESPs in the Association, worksite, or community.
NOMINATION FORMS:
ESP Sherry Tucker Leadership Award
The Outstanding Postsecondary Award will be presented at the next Postsecondary Conference in January 2025.
To be eligible for the award, the nominee must have engaged in activities relating to one or more of the following:
- Provided leadership in higher education;
- Promoted, designed, and coordinated programs which enhance the relationship between higher education and the community (preK-12, business, international, etc.);
- Worked to improve relations and understanding among higher education groups (private institutions, other faculty and staff organizations, NCAA, etc.);
- Developed and promoted legislation impacting higher education;
- Contributed to the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) mission, goals and advocacy.
The deadline to submit award nominations is December 31, 2024.
NOMINATION FORM: