Teacher of the Year Award

2010 Mary Olsen “Friend of Children” Award

The Early Childhood Conference Committee is searching for an outstanding Early Childhood Professional (teacher or administrator) to receive the Mary Olsen, “Friend of Children” Award. The award will be presented at the 35th Annual Early Childhood Conference. Early childhood entities (program, association, school, or center) can nominate an individual for this award. Please take a moment with your staff to reflect upon individuals that have gone above and beyond their job requirements in behalf of strengthening early childhood services for children and families. There are many deserving candidates in this field.

Criteria
This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to Utah’s Early Childhood Community through his or her many years of service as an advocate for children and quality programming.  Although the recipient may also have had direct contact with children, this award specifically recognizes the contributions they have made because of their vision for and public commitment to children.  The recipient may be a child advocate, an administrator, a public policy-maker or a long standing educator of young children whose efforts have made Utah a better place for children to grow and learn.

Selection

  • Early childhood entities (program, association, school or center) can nominate an individual for this award.
  • Fill out the nomination form (click here) and return it before the nomination deadline, which is March 1, 2010. Return nomination information to:

Kris Hale
Child Care Coordinating Office
University of Utah
200 S. Central Campus Dr., Room 316
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9103
Fax: (801) 585-7466

To contact Kris with questions, call her at (801) 585-5897

  • Members of the Early Childhood Conference Scholarship and Award Committee will select the award recipient from this year’s nominees. If nominees are at a similar level in meeting the selection criteria, a vote of the full conference committee will be held.

Past Recipients

1992 Mary Olsen

1993 Carol Blackwell

1994 Pat Eager

1995 Dorma Lindsay

1996 Kris Hale

1997 Jean Kunz

1998 Elaine Strom

1999 Jean Larson

2000 Phil Brown

2004 Patricia Kreher

2005 Marilyn McCumber

2006 Liz Barker

2007 Erin Trenbeth-Murray

2008 Chris Jones

2009 Chris Bray