Nominate Your Favorite Teacher At Park Slope’s Barnes & Noble Store

PARK SLOPE – Local middle and high school students can show their educators some love and appreciation by nominating them in Barnes & Noble’s 8th annual “My Favorite Teacher Contest.”

Students can submit essays, poems, or thank-you letters that express how the teacher they are nominating has influenced them and why they appreciate and admire them. After collecting the submissions, organizers at participating schools can then drop off the nominations at the Park Slope Barnes & Noble for consideration.

Entries will be judged on the “compelling nature of the teacher’s inspiring qualities, the sincerity of the student’s appreciation and the quality of expression and writing,” according to the contest rules. Teachers from grades 1 through 12 are eligible for nomination.

The local winning teacher will be recognized in Spring 2018 at an event at the Park Slope bookstore and will receive a special award. The student who wrote the winning entry will also be honored at the event and receive a certificate of recognition.

After the local teacher is awarded, he/she will go onto the regional round of the competition from which the “Barnes & Noble National Teacher of the Year” will be selected.

Along with the prestigious title, the “National Teacher of the Year” will receive $5,000 and be honored at a special community celebration at their local Barnes & Noble outpost. Along with bragging rights, the student who writes the national winning entry will received a $500 gift card for Barnes & Noble and a NOOK. The winning national teacher’s school will also receive a $5,000 prize.

To enter the Barnes & Noble “My Favorite Teacher Contest” students must submit their essays, poems, or letters (500 words or less) along with a completed and signed entry form to the Barnes & Noble Park Slope at 267 7th Avenue by Friday, March 2, 2018.

Only middle and high school students and active teachers employed in elementary, middle, or high schools in the United States are eligible to enter. Click here for the full contest rules and entry form.