• Commitment to Excellence: The Fellow significantly affects student achievement, continuously improves classroom practice through reflection and goal setting, and inspires all students to learn.
  
  
• Leadership: The Fellow contributes to their school community, is respected and admired as a professional by students, faculty, parents, and other members of the school community, and engages in activities or programs that impact their students’ progress.

Each 2010 award recipient will receive a personal grant of $2000 plus a $500 classroom grant; finalists will receive a personal grant of $250. In addition, ACE recipients and finalists may be featured in NYC Teaching Fellows promotional materials, including the NYCTF website, and may be asked to contribute to NYCTF recruitment or training activities or present at NYCTF sponsored workshops or conferences.

10 Years of Success
Since the spring of 2000, the NYC Teaching Fellows program has helped to staff shortage subject areas in NYC’s highest need schools by recruiting high quality, dedicated individuals to become teachers. The Fellowship has drawn over 150,000 applications and provided our school system with over 13,500 talented new teachers. Today, 11% of the overall teaching population in NYC public schools participated in the NYC Teaching Fellows program.

Significant progress in raising student achievement has been made in New York City in the last ten years, and Fellows have played an instrumental role in closing the achievement gap.

Eligibility
Applicants to the Award for Classroom Excellence can be at any experience level, but must meet several eligibility requirements:

• Must be a Fellow in good standing with the NYC Teaching Fellows program
• Must be active as a full-time teacher in the NYC Department of Education
• Must be continuing as an active, full-time teacher with the NYC Department of Education for the 2010-2011 school year

Application Process
All applicants must submit their completed application for the award by March 15. We recommend preparing all application materials in advance, as incomplete applications cannot be saved.  In addition, two letters of recommendation must be received by March 29. Recommenders will be emailed instructions and a secure link for submitting a  recommendation only after the applicant’s complete application has been submitted.

Click here to view the application instructions and guidelines.
For a detailed list of Frequently Asked Questions, please click here.

Selection Process
All submitted applications will be reviewed by the NYC Teaching Fellows Award for Classroom Excellence selection committee. A limited number of applications will advance to the finalist round.

The finalist round consists of:

• An interview with the NYCTF ACE selection committee
• A classroom observation.

Finalists will be reviewed based on their application, recommendations, interview, and classroom observations. Final award decisions will be made by an external panel of judges. Applicants will be notified of their status by May 2010. The award ceremony will be held in June 2010.  

Application Timeline

NYCTF Award for Classroom Excellence Application Timeline
Open for Applications and Nominations	January 21, 2010
Nomination Deadline	March 8, 2010
Application Deadline	March 15, 2010
Recommendation Deadline	March 29, 2010
Applicants receive Notification of their Status	May 2010
Award Ceremony	June 2010

 
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Please direct any additional questions to NYCTF@schools.nyc.gov with the subject heading NYCTF ACE.


The NYC Teaching Fellows Award for Classroom Excellence is made possible by generous funding via The Fund for Public Schools.