Teacher of the Year

If you wish to nom­i­nate a media adviser for the CHSPA Jour­nal­ism Teacher of the Year Award, click here for the materials.

Every year the Col­orado High School Press Asso­ci­a­tion acknowl­edges its out­stand­ing news­pa­per, year­book and video media advis­ers by select­ing one teacher to be CHSPA’s Teacher of the Year. Teachers/advisers may be nom­i­nated by their prin­ci­pal, a col­league or edi­tor, who must write a let­ter of nomination.

Upon nom­i­na­tion, advis­ers will receive a ques­tion­naire to com­plete and return to CHSPA by a des­ig­nated date. Com­pleted pack­ages (nom­i­na­tion mate­ri­als and ques­tion­naire) are sub­mit­ted to a panel of judges.

The fol­low­ing cri­te­ria is taken into con­sid­er­a­tion by judges for decid­ing a winner:

The adviser must be:
     An effec­tive edu­ca­tor in the field of jour­nal­ism and/or pub­li­ca­tions
     A qual­ity jour­nal­ism pro­moter as shown by par­tic­i­pa­tion in state and/or national jour­nal­ism orga­ni­za­tions
     An adviser whose pub­li­ca­tions have been rec­og­nized by hon­ors and awards given col­lec­tively or to indi­vid­u­als on
             their staff
     A mem­ber of the Col­orado High School Press Association

All nom­i­nated advis­ers are rec­og­nized at a spe­cial cer­e­mony at the adviser award lun­cheon dur­ing Jour­nal­ism Day at Col­orado State Uni­ver­sity in Fort Collins in Octo­ber. The state win­ner may be sub­mit­ted to the Jour­nal­ism Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion for con­sid­er­a­tion in the JEA National Year­book Adviser of the Year com­pe­ti­tion, or to the Dow Jones News Fun for con­sid­er­a­tion in its National High School Jour­nal­ism Teacher of the Year program.