Overview and Criteria
Awards
Responsibilities: The awards committee (8.2.4), chaired by the past-president, is responsible for the selection and presentation of the awards (past-president). The Health and Physical Education Council recognizes outstanding contributions to health and physical education in the following manner:
District Representatives Certificates of Commendation:
District representatives may nominate up to three people from their district who have made or are making an outstanding contribution to health and physical education.(The number of nominees may be increased at the discretion of the awards committee.) These nominees will be presented with a certificate of commendation at the Annual Conference.
Distinguished Service Awards:
Descriptionof the Award:
(a)The award may be conferred annually.
(b)The award shall be ratified by the table officers.
(c)The award shall be announced and presented at the Annual Conference.
(d)The award shall be a plaque in the shape of the Province of Alberta, inscribed with the following:
• Insignia and “Run for Your Life”
• Health and Physical Education Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
• Distinguished Service Award
• Presented to (name of the recipient)
• For Distinguished Service to Health and Physical Education in Alberta
• Month, day, year
(e) No more than two awards shall be given annually.
HPEC Executive Handbook, p 13
Qualifications for Candidates:
(a) The candidate must be a former or current member of the Health and Physical Education Council.
(b) The candidate shall have performed distinguished, meritorious and special service as a leader in the Health and Physical Education Council and/or in an area related to health and physical education in which he/she has made exemplary contributions.
(c) Executive committee members are ineligible to receive a Distinguished Service Award during their term of office.
Nomination Procedures:
(a) The committee shall secure nominations for the Distinguished Service Award by:
i. advertising in the “Runner” and/or Newsletter.
ii. sending information forms to Council members with the “Runner” or newsletter
prior to the nomination deadline, at least three months prior to presentation.
(b) All members of the Council are entitled to nominate persons for the award providing that they obtain letters of reference from two members of the Council.
(c) No nomination shall be considered by the committee unless accompanied by the nomination blank appropriately documented and endorsed.
(d) Completed nomination forms shall be received by the committee not later than 6 weeks prior to the presentation of the award.
Certificates of Commendation
The Health and Physical Education Council recognizes outstanding contributions to health and/or physical education in the following manner:
(a) District representatives may nominate up to two people in their zone who are current members of the council who have made or are making an outstanding contribution to Health and Physical Education (the number of nominees may be increased at the discretion of the awards committee). These nominations will be presented with a certificate of commendation at the annual conference.
HPEC Executive Handbook, p 14
(b) A summary of citations and biographical data of those receiving the certificates are to be included in a booklet available for distribution at the conference award ceremony. (Past President's duty)
Local Incentive Recognition Program
The purpose of this award is to recognize the contribution made by groups of people, enhance school physical education programs and/or enhance active healthy lifestyles of today’s children and youth in school settings.
Guidelines:
• the children of the school must benefit directly from the contribution
• a group is considered to be two or more individuals
• the group may be a school, parent advisory council or another community agency.
• where more than one group works together to provide the contribution to the school, all groups are eligible to receive recognition
• there are no limit to the number of projects which are eligible to receive the award in a given year
• any HPEC member is eligible to nominate groups for the award
• groups may receive the award each time they implement a new project which enhances physical activity of youth
Nomination/SelectionProcess
• HPEC members should submit the nomination form after the project is operational
• Nomination forms should be sent to district representatives (see back of Runner for current names and addresses)
• District representatives will send out a congratulatory letter and awards on a regular basis.Suggested times – Oct, Jan, March and May.
• Whenever possible the award should be presented by the district representativeor the nominator.
• Whenever possible a suitable public presentation should be made and the media notified.
• District representatives should send the names of the local winner to the Schools ComeAlive “Active” newsletter editor for publication