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Best Practices Awards
Civic education is the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to develop informed, active and responsible citizenship.
Institute for Canadian Citizenship
Best Practices Awards is a new initiative of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC). Each year the focus of the awards will be different. This year’s focus is civic education.
We are now accepting submissions for nominations for 2010 Best Practices Awards that will recognize three programs that have adopted successful approaches to civic education. The award will be based on the creativity of the organization’s approach, transferability of the model, sustainability and success of the program (not the organization).
Entry requirements
To participate in Best Practices Awards the organization must submit a nomination for its existing program which exemplifies a model approach to civic education.
- Organization running the nominated program must be a Canadian entity;
- The program must be ongoing (not a one-time project or a pilot);
- The program must be for Canadians;
- The program must be directly related to civic education.
Contest rules
Deadline for nominations have been extended to June 15, 2010 at 5pm.
To nominate a program, please fill out the form and email it to bp@icc-icc.ca
The form consists of three parts:
- the registration;
- Q/A section; and
- 500-word impact statement.
Judges
Dr. Jo-ann Archibald – Associate Dean for Indigenous Education, Faculty of Education, UBC
Riccardo Ciccarelli – Undergraduate Student, Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University
The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson – co-chair, Institute for Canadian Citizenship
Mavis DeGirolamo – Teacher of citizenship handbook and involved community member
Martin Katz – ICC board member, President and Founder, Prospero Pictures
Jean-Jacques Rousseau –(A) Manager, Life Science Programs, Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation
Mariana Sussi – Master in Family Therapy & Canadian Certified Counsellor, Winnipeg Narrative Therapy
Considerations for selecting the winners
The Panel of judges will use the same criteria to judge all nominees, including:
- The program’s degree of sustainability (i.e. how likely that the program is going to continue);
- The program is transferable within Canada;
- The number of points collected by the organization for the program;
- Impact story; and
- The scope of the program.
Recognition & Award
The three winning programs will be
- announced during an awards event;
- published in ICC newsletter; and
- awarded a $2,500 prize which the organization responsible for the program must spend on developing and/or disseminating the program.
Copyrights & Disclaimer
The Institute for Canadian Citizenship retains the right to this contest and the website content.
By entering the Best Practice Program contest, the entrant agrees to be bound by the rules of the contest.
The Institute for Canadian Citizenship reserves the right to disqualify an entrant.
The Institute for Canadian Citizenship reserves the right to cancel the contest without further notice.
The Institute for Canadian Citizenship reserves the right to change the rules without further notice.
Contacts
For more information contact Mila Ovchinnikova, Coordinator, Programs and Special Projects
at milao@icc-icc.ca or call 416.593.6998 x 224.