TSCA Professional Recognition Awards Nominations
Professional Recognition Awards
Requirements and Procedures for Nomination
The purpose of these awards is to recognize counselors for outstanding service achievements. TSCA welcomes nominations from individual TSCA members as well as from TCA Chapter Boards who have similarly honored a chapter school counselor. State TSCA winners can be submitted to National ASCA awards committee (if an ASCA member).
Selections will be made by the Awards committee. The committee evaluates all materials submitted and may select no more than one recipient for each category. The committee is not required to grant an award if there are no eligible and qualified nominees.
Advance notification will allow recipients to make plans to be present during the Recognition Luncheon to receive the award. The nominator may be asked to provide the name and addresses of the following:
1. Local Newspaper
2. School Central Office
3. School  Board Chairperson
All Nominations
Nomination Packet must include the following:
1. Nomination form.
2. Letter of recommendation from nominator. This letter should contain a brief biography of the
    nominee and in 200 words or less why this person should be considered.
3. Letter of recommendation (200 words or less) from their principal or supervisor.
Elementary, Middle, Multi-Level, High School and Post-SecondaryCounselor of the Year
I. Eligibility for Consideration
	A. The nominee must be currently employed as a full-time counselor and have completed three (3)
consecutive years of counseling service.
B. The nominee must be a current member of TSCA.
C. The nominee must hold a Masters Degree or equivalent in Guidance and Counseling and be
certified by the State of Tennessee.
II. Criteria for Recognition
A. The nominee should possess the personal qualities thought to be desirable in counselor
B. The nominee must have provided leadership and innovation in their guidance services,
demonstrated involvement in professional counseling associations, and performed service to the school or community.
C. The activities or accomplishments recognized must have taken place within five (5) years prior to
	the date of presentation.

Counselor Educator Award

I. Eligibility for Consideration
	A. The nominee must be currently employed as a full-time counselor educator and have been
	eligible to be a school counselor.
      B. The nominee must hold a Masters Degree or equivalent in school counseling programs and  be certified as a counselor educator by the State of Tennessee.
II. Criteria for Recognition
    A. The nominee should possess the personal qualities thought to be desirable in a counselor educator.
B. The nominee has made contributions to the school counseling profession.
C. The nominee has demonstrated consistent and reliable contributions in all the areas of service,
scholarship, and teaching over an exemplary career span.

Supervisor Award
The purpose of the Supervisor Award is to recognize a supervisor or director whose leadership and outstanding services have impacted the guidance and counseling field for counselors on a local, state, or national level.
I. Eligibility for Consideration:
A. A nominee must be a supervisor, director, or supervisor of district and counseling services who has consistently made a significant contribution to the improvement of guidance and counseling services in the school setting.
B. The nominee must be currently employed as a full-time supervisor, coordinator, or director of district and counseling services and have completed at least three (3) years of elementary, middle/junior high, secondary, or multi-level.
II. Criteria for Recognition:

A. The nominee should possess the personal qualities thought to be desirable in a supervisor.
B. The nominee must have been responsible for implementation of innovative counseling and
	guidance services.
C. The activities or accomplishments recognized must have taken place within five (5) years prior to
	the date of presentation.
Advocate Award
The purpose of the Advocate Award is to recognize a person or organization whose advocacy of
guidance and counseling services in a school setting has impact for counselors on a local, state, or national level.
The purpose of the Advocate Award is to recognize a person or organization whose advocacy of
guidance and counseling services in a school setting has impact for counselors on a local, state, or national level.
I. Eligibility for Consideration
A. The nominee may be an administrator, principal, superintendent, school board member, parent, teacher, community leader, or organization who has consistently made a significant contribution to the improvement of guidance and counseling services in the school setting.
B. The nominee should not be actively employed as a school counselor or as a supervisor of school counselors or counseling and guidance services.
II. Criteria for Recognition
A. The nominee should possess the personal qualities thought to be desirable in an advocate.
B. The nominee must have exhibited exemplary support and outstanding promotion of school counseling and guidance services.
C. The nominee must have been responsible for the implementation of new/additional counseling and guidance services, or have improved existing counseling and guidance services.