For Immediate Release - March 1, 2021

This year more than ever, we know that our school communities would not be the same without the amazing staff, students, volunteers and community members who help make the Upper Grand District School Board a great place to learn and work.

If you want to recognize a person who goes above and beyond in our school system, now is your chance to nominate them for an Everyday Hero Award.

Eligible candidates for the Everyday Hero Awards include UGDSB employees, students, community members or volunteers. Nominations can be for an individual or for a group who has made a difference to our school system.

Criteria for the award includes the performance of duties at a high level at all times, a significant school or system-related achievement, a specific innovation or achievement of significant value or importance to the system, or a unique circumstance considered worthy of recognition by the board.

Nominations are open until March 26, 2021, and are being collected digitally.

Like many things, how we honour our winners this year has changed. Winners will be honoured during a virtual ceremony on May 10 at 7:00pm.

More information about the virtual ceremony will be communicated by the board closer to the date.

For more information and to view the full nomination criteria, please visit the board’s website at www.ugdsb.ca/heroes.

About the Upper Grand District School Board

The Upper Grand District School Board serves more than 35,000 students through 65 elementary schools and 11 secondary schools in the City of Guelph, County of Wellington and County of Dufferin. The UGDSB covers the ancestral and traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Six Nations of the Grand River, and Saugeen Ojibway Nation Territories. Student success is the goal of over 4,000 dedicated teaching and support staff who are aided by the contributions of caring volunteers and community partners.

Learn, Lead, Inspire…Together

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