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 100 volunteer regional evaluators from teachers' federations, parent-teacher associations, post-secondary institutions, and provincial and territorial education ministries.
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
- Brandon University
- Brock University
- McGill University
- Niagara University
- Nipissing University
- Ontario Tech University
- Queen's University
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic
- University of Calgary
- University of Manitoba
- University of Ottawa
- Université de Montréal
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivieres
- Université de Saint-Boniface
- University of Winnipeg
- Western University
Government
Provincial/territorial
National and Provincial Organizations
National
Alberta
- Alberta Teachers' Association
- Calgary Academy
- Calgary Board of Education
- Christ the Redeemer Catholic Schools
- Fort McMurray Catholic School District
- Palliser School Division
- Public School Boards' Association of Alberta
British Columbia
- Abbotsford School District 34
- Central Okanagan Public Schools
- Decoda Literacy Solutions
- Greater Victoria School District
- Richmond School District
- Surfrider
- Vancouver Island West School District 84
- Vancouver School Board
Manitoba
New Brunswick
- Anglophone East School District
- Cape Breton Victoria Regional Centre for Education
- New Brunswick Teachers' Association
Newfoundland and Labrador
Northwest Territories
Nova Scotia
- Halifax Region Centre for Education
- Nova Scotia Federation of Home and School Associations
- Nova Scotia Teachers Union
Ontario
- Crescent School
- Durham District School Board
- Greater Essex County District School Board
- Halton District School Board
- Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
- Keewatin Patricia District School Board
- Ontario Science Centre
- Peel District School Board
- Science Teachers Association of Ontario
- Science Timmins
- Thames Valley District School Board
- Toronto Catholic District School Board
- Toronto District School Board
- York Region District School Board
Prince Edward Island
Québec
- Association québécoise des enseignantes et des enseignants du primaire (French only)
- Jonction Éducation (French only)
- Lester B. Pearson School Board
- The Sacred Heart School of Montreal