How To Get The Presidential Service Award

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Awards are given to students who are graduating from uncomplicated, centre or loftier schools that meet the criteria below.

Selection Criteria
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President's Award for Educational Excellence

6. This honor recognizes academic success in the classroom. To be eligible, students must see requirements, including grade point average or, school-prepare criteria and selection of state tests or teacher recommendations. Students at each accolade level (simple, heart, or high school) must meet the requirements in Category A and either one or 2 of Category C. If a school does not accept letter grades, a student must see the requirements in Category B and either 1 or ii of Category C.

Grade Bespeak Average: Students are to earn a grade indicate boilerplate of 90 on a 100 point scale, (an A on a letter scale or a 3.5 on a 4.0 scale). When computing class point averages at the respective award level, just the years at that level are to exist included through the fall semester of the exiting grade. Note: Elementary schools are not to include K-3 in their computations.
Schoolhouse Criteria/Standards: Standards for the honor are to be established by each school that reflect a 90 pct level or higher on the traditional grading scale. This category enables school personnel to utilise new assessment and evaluation tools in developing honour criteria at their school and use the criteria adequately to all students. The primary indicators of excellence must be based on bookish accomplishment. School personnel may also consider, as part of the criteria, activities in which a student demonstrates high motivation, initiative, integrity, intellectual depth, leadership qualities and/or infrequent judgment. They may likewise crave student essays and outstanding omnipresence, simply these activities must acquit some human relationship to the academic functioning of a student.
In addition to A or B, schools are to include one or more of the post-obit criteria to determine their selected students:
1. Country Tests and Nationally-Normed Achievement Tests: High achievement in reading or math on state tests or nationally-normed tests. The schoolhouse may consider higher admissions examinations for seniors, for example the SAT or Human activity.
2. Recommendations from a Teacher Plus One Other Staff Member: One recommendation is to reflect outstanding achievement such as English, mathematics, science, history, geography, fine art, foreign language, and any other courses that reverberate a school'due south core curriculum. This judgment is to exist supported by tangible evidence that is comprised of either results on instructor-made tests, portfolio assessment, or special projects. The 2d recommendation from a schoolhouse staff fellow member may address, for example: involvement in community service or co-curricular activities including tutoring other students and/or sit-in of creativity and achievement in the visual and performing arts.

This accolade recognizes students that testify outstanding educational growth, comeback, delivery or intellectual development in their academic subjects simply do not meet the criteria for the Educational Excellence Accolade. Its purpose is to encourage and reward students who give their best try, oft in the face of special obstacles. Criteria for this award is developed at each school.

This award is given at the principal'southward discretion based on the criteria developed at the school. The criteria should reverberate the purpose of the award and must exist applied fairly to all students.

The following are examples of criteria for which the President'due south Award for Educational Accomplishment may be presented:

Show tremendous growth but did not meet all the criteria for the President's Award for Educational Excellence.
Demonstrate unusual commitment to learning in academics despite diverse obstacles.
Maintain a school tape that would have met the schoolhouse'southward choice criteria for the President's Honor for Educational Excellence but illness, personal crisis, or special needs prevented the pupil from maintaining such high standards despite hard piece of work.
Achieve high scores or show outstanding growth, comeback, commitment or intellectual development in particular subjects, such equally English language, math, science, etc.
Demonstrate accomplishment in the arts such as music or theater.