Excellence in Service Awards Program

Nominations are now open for the 2024-25 School Year

EIS Nomination Form

The Excellence in Service (EIS) Awards program began in the 1982-83 school year to recognize and encourage superior performance, and to cultivate a continued expectation of excellence, in Grand Haven Area Public Schools. Each year, the process starts with nominations from many sources, and then a review of nominations by the Excellence in Service Awards screening committee takes place. This committee is composed of two teachers, a parent, a non-instructional employee, an administrator, a student from the senior class, and a school board member. The teachers, parent, non-instructional employee and administrator are appointed to three-year terms. The student and board member serve one-year terms.

Committee

The EIS committee spends several hours pouring over the nominations to select the winners. The committee reads all nominations and comes to consensus using a rating scale on winners from the two main categories, which are teaching / itinerant and non-teaching. The award winners are kept confidential until the awards ceremony in May.

Recipients receive engraved plaque and monetary award

Each EIS award winner receives an engraved plaque, as well as a monetary award presented to them at our May all-staff in-service. These monetary awards come from a variety of donors within the community—individuals, organizations, and area businesses. 

Excellence In Service Award Recipients