{"id":1468,"date":"2014-11-17T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T13:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2015-12-15T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:05:31","slug":"maryland-parent-involvement-awards-program-issues-call-for-nominations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-parent-involvement-awards-program-issues-call-for-nominations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Parent Involvement Awards Program Issues Call For Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><strong>Statewide Effort To Honor Parents, Guardians Remains Unique In The Nation<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>For Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486<\/p>\n<p>The Maryland State Department of Education today announced a call for nominations for the eighth annual <em>Maryland Parent Involvement Matters Awards <\/em>(PIMA). \u00a0The unique awards program honors parents and others with legal responsibility for a child whose exemplary contributions to public education have led to improvements for children, teachers, schools, programs and\/or policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaryland\u2019s annual Parent Involvement Matters Awards celebrate the unsung heroes in American education \u2013 those parents and guardians who give up their time in service of student success,\u201d said Maryland State Superintendent of Schools Lillian M. Lowery.\u00a0 \u201cThese incredible volunteers not only help their own children, but they are often able to lift an entire school community to greater heights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Matthew Crawford, last year\u2019s winner, provides an outstanding example of the work taking place throughout Maryland.\u00a0 An assistant professor of chemistry at Frostburg State University (FSU), he volunteers at nearby Flintstone Elementary, where he places a particular focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education, developing \u201cDiscovery Days\u201d at the school.\u00a0 These programs engage students in STEM and integrate the Maryland College and Career-Ready Standards.\u00a0 Dr. Crawford invites fellow professors to take part in the programs and frequently brings children to the FSU campus.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Maryland Parent Involvement Matters Awards<\/em> remain the nation\u2019s only statewide celebration of the critical work that parents provide our schools and classrooms.\u00a0 The awards program was developed to shine a spotlight on parents who have demonstrated significant involvement in the following areas: Communication, Volunteering, Learning, Decision Making and Community Collaboration. The program\u2019s theme, <em>Choose Your Seat. Get Involved<\/em>., illustrates the point that Maryland parents are involved in a wide range of activities to support their public schools and to encourage all parents to get involved whatever way they can.<\/p>\n<p><em>2015 Maryland<\/em><em> Parent Involvement Matters Award<\/em> nominees must be parents or legal guardians of children attending Maryland public schools, and cannot be employees of MSDE or the Maryland public school system. Twenty four semifinalists will be selected \u2013 one parent from each of the 23 Maryland counties and one from Baltimore City.\u00a0 Of the semifinalists, five finalists and one statewide winner will be named at an award celebration planned for the spring of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>PIMA nomination forms are available to be downloaded at <a title=\"Maryland Parent Involvement Matters Award\" href=\"http:\/\/marylandpublicschools.org\/MSDE\/programs\/pima\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.MarylandPublicSchools.org\/pima<\/a>.\u00a0 Nominations must be postmarked by Friday, January 30, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statewide Effort To Honor Parents, Guardians Remains Unique In The Nation<br \/>\nFor Immediate Release \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Contact: William Reinhard, 410-767-0486<br \/>\nThe Maryland State Department of Education today announced <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/maryland-parent-involvement-awards-program-issues-call-for-nominations-2\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8230;Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newsreleases","tag-maryland-parent-involvement-matters-awards-pima"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1469,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}