Program partners
The Prime Minister's Awards for Teaching Excellence and for Teaching Excellence in STEM are administered by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada on behalf of the Prime Minister in partnership with Indigenous Services Canada.
Selection process
The program has recruited over 140 volunteer regional evaluators from teachers' federations, parent-teacher associations, post-secondary institutions, provincial and territorial education ministries, business organizations and student groups.
The program also has a National Advisory Committee (NAC) comprised of national level education organizations. NAC provides an oversight and advisory function. Committee organizations include:
- Canadian Association of Principals
- Canadian Education Association
- Canadian Home and School Federation
- Canadian School Boards Association
- Canadian Teachers' Federation
- Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
- Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires francophones
- Indigenous Services Canada
- Ingenium — Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
- MediaSmarts
- The Conference Board of Canada
Regional evaluators and National Advisory Committee members are all volunteers who give their valuable time and expertise at no cost to the program. The PMA program could not function without the generous support of our volunteer evaluators and committee members.
Regional evaluator organizations
Learning institutions
- Brock University
- First Nations University of Canada
- Laurentian University
- McGill University
- Nipissing University
- Queen's University
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic
- St. Thomas University
- Université de Sherbrooke
- University of Alberta
- University of Calgary
- University of Manitoba
- University of Ottawa
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivieres
- University of Regina
- Université de Saint-Boniface
- Université de Sherbrooke
- University of Winnipeg
Government
Federal
Provincial/territorial
- Council of Ministers of Education (Canada)
- Saskatchewan Ministry of Education
- Department of Education, Yukon
- Manitoba Education
National and Provincial Organizations
National
- Canada Science and Technology Museum
- Canadian Association of Principals
- Canadian Home and School Federation
- Canadian Mathematical Society
- Canadian School Boards Association
- Canadian Teachers' Federation
- EdCan Network
- Fédération nationale des conseils scolaires francophones
- Learning Disabilities Association of Canada
- The Conference Board of Canada
Alberta
- Calgary Board of Education
- Coalition des femmes de l'Alberta (French only)
- College of Alberta School Superintendents
- Fort McMurray Catholic School District
- Fort McMurray Public Schools
- Rocky View Schools
- Strathcona Tweedsmuir School
British Columbia
- BC School Trustees Association
- Burnaby School District
- Catholic Independent Schools, Vancouver Archdiocese
- Central Okanagan Public Schools
- Delta School District
- Greater Victoria School District
- Independent Schools Association of BC
- Langley School District #35
- Richmond School District
- Science World British Columbia
- SET-BC
- St. George's School
- Surfrider
- Vancouver Island West School District 84
- Vancouver School Board
Manitoba
- Balmoral Hall School
- Louis Riel School Division
- Manitoba Association of Parent Councils
- Manitoba School Boards Association
- Winnipeg School Division
New Brunswick
- Anglophone East School District
- Science East (no website)
Newfoundland and Labrador
Northwest Territories
- Northwest Territories Superintendent Association (no website)
Nova Scotia
- Cape Breton Victoria Regional Centre for Education
- Halifax Region Centre for Education
- Nova Scotia Federation of Home and School Associations
- Nova Scotia Teachers Union
Ontario
- Bluewater District School Board
- Code Breaker
- Conseil des Écoles Catholiques du Centre-Est (French only)
- Crescent School
- Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario
- Greater Essex County District School Board
- Halton District School Board
- Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
- Kenora Catholic District School Board
- Niagara Catholic District School Board
- Peel District School Board
- Science Teachers Association of Ontario
- Simcoe County District School Board
- Toronto Catholic District School Board
- Toronto District School Board
- York Catholic District School Board
Prince Edward Island
Québec
- Association québécoise des enseignantes et des enseignants du primaire (French only)
- Commission Scolaire de la Capitale (École L'Odyssée) (French only)
- Jonction Éducation (French only)
- Lester B. Pearson School Board