Call for Nominations

2012 Ernest R. Caverly Awards

The Brookline Public Schools

Deadline: 5 PM, Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Via email to: kathleen_sheehy@brookline.k12.ma.us

Via USPS/by hand to: Brookline Education Foundation

40 Webster Place, Brookline, MA 02445

Since 1984, the Ernest R. Caverly Award has been presented to Brookline educators in recognition of professional achievements and contributions to the Brookline Public Schools. Two awards are given annually, one each to a high school and an elementary school educator. Funded by the Brookline Education Foundation, each award consists of a $2,500 stipend and a gift. The educators receiving the awards are designated as Ernest R. Caverly Associates in recognition of their dedication to the ideals of Dr. Ernest R. Caverly, a distinguished public school leader, educator, and Brookline Schools Superintendent from 1931 to 1964.

Previous Caverly Award winners include Rick Cass and Lisa Redding (2011), Bernard Pendleton and Elon Fischer (2010) Amy Neale and Ricardo Calleja (2009), Alicia Hsu and Ellen Lewis (2008), Marilyn Chetwynd and Eleanor Demont (2007), Ellen Goldberg and Patricia Herrington (2006), Margaret Metzger and Mary Sodano (2005), and Stephen Lantos and Jay Sugarman (2004). For a complete list of Caverly Award winners, please visit www.brooklineeducation.org

Eligible Candidates

Nominees should exhibit exceptional achievement and contributions to the Public Schools of Brookline (PSB). In particular, Caverly Award winners exemplify the core values of the Brookline Public Schools:

            • High achievement for all     

            • Excellence in teaching

            • Collaboration

            • Respect for human differences

            • Educational equity

In addition to classroom teachers, nominees may include specialists, guidance counselors, and librarians. Each nominee must have at least seven (7) years of service in the Brookline Public Schools (BPS) to be eligible. Part-time personnel will be considered. While the Caverly Award is not intended as a special recognition for a retiring educator, retiring personnel will be considered.

Nomination Process

Colleagues submit nominations in the form of a written letter. This letter should be no more than 2000 words and include information about the nominee’s background, history in PSB, professional development activities, skills and achievements, and contributions to PSB and beyond.

The nomination letter should integrate testimony and anecdotes from various sources. Up to, but no more than, five (5) supporting letters from colleagues, principal/headmaster, outside experts, parents, or students may be attached to the nomination letter.

Nominations must be sent or delivered to the Ernest R. Caverly Awards Committee, Brookline Education Foundation, 40 Webster Place, Brookline, MA 02445, or via email to kathleen_sheehy@brookline.k12.ma.us on or before 5 PM on Wednesday, March 21, 2012.

Announcement of Honorees

One high school and one elementary school educator will be chosen to receive the award by a committee consisting of recent Caverly Award winners and members of the Board of Directors of the Brookline Education Foundation.

The 2012 Caverly Award Honorees will be announced at the Brookline Education Foundation’s Annual Meeting and Celebrating Teachers event on

May 15, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. at Newbury College.