UCET Outstanding Coach Nomination 2025
UCET Outstanding Coach of the Year - This award recognizes and honors an educational coach who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and coaching in implementing technology to support teachers to effectively use technology with students to engage them in learning, enhance learning with options that aren’t possible without the use of technology, and extend learning in ways that relate to the student’s real world and effectively meet their unique needs. Nominee can be an educational technology coach, library technology, coach instructional coach, or curriculum coach. The one stipulation is that the nominee is not a PK-12 classroom teacher. They may have a teaching certificate, however their current position is not as a classroom teacher. One coach will be chosen from all nominations for the state.
 
General Info:

Nominations close on Friday, January 31, 2025.  The award winner will be announced Day 1 at the opening session of the UCET Conference on Tuesday, February 25, 2025.

Selection criteria:
1. Required nomination materials are complete and submitted by deadline.
2. The nominee is not a PK-12 classroom teacher.
3. The nominee's work has had a significant positive impact on technology use in the nominee's educational community.
4. The nominee professionally supports teachers in creating and accomplishing goals aligned with the vision and expectations of the school and district through high-quality coaching practices including the use of technology and infusion of information and communications technology, and digital resources to engage students in learning. 
5. The nominee effectively improves student outcomes through building the capacity of the educators to use best practices to meet and extend student needs with options that aren’t possible without the use of technology,
6. The nominee builds trusting relationships through clear communication that is non-threatening and objective.
7. The nominee effectively listens and communicates through asking probing and reflective questions.
8. The nominee can help teachers to analyze and utilize data to shift instructional decision making and practices.
9. The nominee understands the differences between elementary and secondary student development and elementary and secondary pedagogy.
10. The nominee's work reflects the mission and purpose of UCET.


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Nominee's Information
Nominee's Name *
Last Name, First Name
Nominee's Position *
Nominee's Organization Name *
District, School, Company
Nominee's Contact Information *
Work Mailing Address, City, State, Zip Code
Nominee's Phone Number *
Work Phone
Nominee's Email *
Work Email
Nominator's Information
Nominator's Name *
Last Name, First Name
Nominator's Position *
Nominator's Organization *
District, School, Company
Nominator's Contact Information *
Work Mailing Address, City, State, Zip Code
Nominator's Phone Number *
Work Phone
Nominator's Email *
Work Email
Nominating Statement
Why is your nominee the best person for the award? What impact does your nominee have on the school or educational community? *
500 words or less
Describe how your nominee reflects the mission and purpose of UCET. *
UCET is the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology. It is the mission of UCET to (1) promote the cooperative development and effective use of information technology in Utah's educational institutions. (2) provide a forum for the exchange of information on technology by holding conferences, meetings, and workshops, and publishing a newsletter. (3) bring together any and all parties interested in the use of technology in education for the purpose of representing their varied interests to each other and to the public.
Media Announcement
We would like to send an announcement of nominees and winners to various media outlets. We will be taking photographs at the conference to include on the website.
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