Is your child’s teacher the best of the best? Is your colleague the cream of the crop? Nominate him or her to become your school’s Teacher of the Year.

The winning teacher will receive prizes and recognitions at a May 5, 2012 Real Salt Lake halftime (click here for discount tickets. Enter promo code: Canyons) and a May 15, 2012 Canyons Board of Education Reception and Honors Ceremony. He or she also will have a chance to be selected as the Canyons School District Teacher of the Year, who will receive additional prizes and recognitions and be nominated for the State Teacher of the Year award.

Here’s how you can get involved:

• Download the Nomination Form

• Complete the form on why you think your nominee should be recognized. Criteria include how the teacher shows that students are making progress, supports the Canyons District vision and goals, and exhibits leadership skills and efforts to promote collaboration, student engagement, and community and family involvement.

• Print and submit the form to your school’s PTA leaders, or, if you are a school employee, to the principal, by April 13, 2012. The School Selection Committee will consider nominees forwarded by employees and the PTA (up to two)

• Watch for information from your school on the April 27 Teacher of the Year surprise announcement.

Canyons School District honors Teachers of the Year at every school. Winners of each school’s Teacher of the Year will be announced at school celebrations on April 27, 2012. The District Teacher of the Year will be announced by the Board of Education on May 15, 2012.