2025-2026 Employee Awards Now Open!


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Awards

Nominations are now open for the FCPS Outstanding Employee Awards!  To submit a nomination for a Frost Middle School Outstanding Employee please use this form. You may nominate one employee or multiple employees by submitting this form multiple times.  However, one individual may only nominate one employee per category.

Please write a paragraph or two about how this employee demonstrates exceptional work in the criteria for that category. The google form has more information regarding the criteria for each of these awards and the eligibility requirements are below.

The deadline to submit a nomination is Friday, October 31.

Outstanding Teacher 

Eligibility: Has at least three years of experience as a teacher (in any school/school district); librarians are included in this category.

Outstanding New Teacher

Eligibility: Be within the first 3 year of their teaching career (in any school/school district); librarians are included in this category.

Outstanding Principal

Eligibility: Has at least three years of experience as a building principal (in any school/school district).

Outstanding Leader 

Eligibility: At least one year of experience in their current position as a Schedule-C or School-Based Administrator scale employee (that is not the building principal) at their current location.

Common positions in this category: Assistant and Associate Principals, Director of Student Activities, Director of Student Services.

Outstanding Professional Employee 

Eligibility: At least one year experience in current position as a Schedule-B employee or other non-instructional employee in a school that supports school leadership at their current location.

Common positions in this category: Resource Teacher and Special Education Department Chair and Multilingual Learners Department Chair who serve in a non-instructional role for more than 50% of their time, After-School Specialist, Assessment Coach, Crisis Resource Teacher, Instructional Coach, School-Based Technology Specialist, Technology Support Specialist, Psychologist, Reading Specialist, Safety and Security Specialist, Social Worker, Speech Language Pathologist, School Counselor, Systems of Support Administrator, or other employee paid as a Resource Teacher who serves in a non-instructional or administrative role in the school)  

Outstanding Operational Employee

Eligibility: At least one year of experience in current position as Schedule-A or Classroom Instructional Support Scale employee, or an hourly employee who has been working regularly in one position for more than one year. 

Common positions in this category: Administrative Assistant, Office Assistant, Student Information Assistant, Finance Technician, School Finance Assistant, Student Services Assistant, Registrar, Custodian, Building Supervisor, Operating Engineer, Food Services staff, Instructional Assistant, Family Liaison, Public Health Training Assistant, Safety and Security Assistant, and all hourly employees*

 

Please email Danielle Hornbecker at dshornbecker@fcps.edu with any questions.