2014 Pacesetter Self-Nomination Form

The Campaign Pacesetter Honors are among one of the highest awards presented by the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading. These awards recognize communities that are "leading by example" to solve one or more of the challenges that can undermine early literacy.

The 2014 Pacesetter Honors will go to communities that meet three criteria. We intend to honor communities that:

• Participated in the GLR Campaign’s 2014 messaging and mobilizing opportunities, such as Summer Learning Day and Attendance Awareness Month, as well as Read Across America Day and National Volunteer Week.
• Showed progress in at least one of the three community solutions areas — school readiness, attendance and summer learning. We’re also looking for progress in adopting or replicating proven and promising programs, as well as in strengthening stakeholder engagement, community engagement and cross-sector collaboration.
• Have created a community plan (CSAP) that integrates healthy, on-track development and successful parenting; relies on disaggregated data; and focuses on proven and promising interventions.

We will use a self-nomination process for the 2014 Pacesetter Honors. You have the following options for self-nomination:

• If your community completes the online Grade-Level Reading Community Self-Assessment, that automatically constitutes self-nomination for Pacesetter Honors from the Campaign’s perspective. While submitting additional information is not required, if you’d like to do that, please feel free to use this form. If for some reason, you’d like to opt out of consideration for Pacesetter Honors please contact Susanne Sparks at susanne@smarterlearninggroup.com.
• If your community chooses NOT to complete the Grade-Level Reading Community Self-Assessment, use this form to self-nominate for Pacesetter Honors. Communities will be asked to provide detailed information and supporting documentation per the criteria noted above using an online form that will be available beginning Dec. 1, 2014. All self-nominations should be filed by Dec. 15, 2014.

Communities that meet the criteria and earn Pacesetter Honors will be announced in January.