Awards
Teaching Awards
The Werklund School of Education Office of Teaching and Learning helps facilitate the recognition of outstanding teaching in the School each year by administering and adjudication of several internal teaching awards.
With the application for University of Calgary or external awards for teaching excellence, we are happy to provide support with the copyediting of award dossiers and other preparation of applications. If you are applying for awards at these levels feel free to contact us for support.
As you consider applying for, or adjudicating, awards and grants whether with the Werklund School of Education, the University of Calgary or from an external entity, we encourage you to consider the guidelines that the university has drafted to acknowledge and foster greater equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in our award and grant processes.
Currently there are four teaching awards which have been adjudicated through the Office of Teaching and Learning and the Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee. The deadline for nomination packages will be early May 2025.
Learn more about these and other Werklund awards.
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Teaching Excellence Award
Description: The Werklund School of Education awards one Werklund Teaching Excellence Award annually to a full time, continuing academic staff member who demonstrates outstanding teaching and learning experiences.
Award: Up to $2,000 to be used towards attending a conference of their choice; name engraved on the Werklund Teaching Excellence Award plaque; letter of recognition.
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Leadership in Education Award
Description: Award recognizes an academic staff member who demonstrates outstanding leadership and commitment to improving teaching and learning experiences in the School and in the profession.
Award: Up to $2,000 to be used towards attending a conference of their choice; name engraved on the Werklund Teaching Excellence Award plaque; letter of recognition.
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Online Teaching Excellence Award
Description: The Online Teaching Excellence Award is presented annually to an academic staff member in the Werklund School of Education who demonstrates outstanding online teaching and learning experiences.
Award: Up to $2,000 to be used towards attending a conference of their choice; letter of recognition.
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Sessional Instructor Award
Description: The Werklund School of Education awards one Sessional Instructor Teaching Excellence Award annually to a sessional academic staff member who demonstrates outstanding teaching and learning experiences
Award: Up to $2,000 to be used towards attending a conference of their choice; letter of recognition.
The University of Calgary Teaching Awards are offered in 14 categories. There is a comprehensive nomination process that must be completed by the application deadline. The Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning offers one-on-one sessions and other supports to help you prepare nomination packages. The WSE Office of Teaching and Learning will help potential candidates prepare their nominations and will provide editing support of nomination portfolios as well. If you wish to have support with your nomination package, please email tandl@ucalgary.ca. Awards nominations closed on September 25, 2024 and recipients will be announced in Winter 2025.
Werklund Recipients of University of Calgary Teaching Awards
2023
Amy Burns - Educational Leadership (Individual, formal)
Nadia Delanoy - Sessional Instructor
2022
Erin Spring and Aubrey Hanson - Award for Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Sandra Manyfeathers - Award for Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Roswita Dressler - Award for Blended and Online Learning
Jeff Turner - Award for Sessional Instructors
2021
Miwa Takeuchi - Award for Full-Time Academic Staff (Associate Professor)
Polly L. Knowlton Cockett - Award for Sessional Instructors
Soroush Sabbaghan - Award for Teaching in Online Environments
Quality Graduate Supervision MOOC Team: Michele Jacobsen and Hawazen Alharbi - Award for Educational Leadership (Group)
2020
Man-Wai Chu - Award for Full-Time Academic Staff
Michele Jacobsen - Award for Graduate Supervision
Gregory Tweedie - Teaching in Online Environments
2019
Anusha Kassan - Award for Full-Time Academic Staff
Shelly Russell-Mayhew - Award for Full-Time Academic Staff
Colleen Kawalilak - Award for Graduate Supervision
Manitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre Inc. (Lorne Keeper, Margaret Scott, Shirley Myran and Derek Courchene) and Werklund School of Education (Meadow Schroeder, Erica Makarenko, Jac J.W. Andrews) - Award for Educational Leadership (Group)
Mary-Ann Mitchell-Pellett - Award for Sessional Instructors
Cyndie Baum - Award for Continuing and Professional Education
Stephanie Bartlett and Erin Quinn - Award for Team-Teaching
2018
Shelly Russell-Mayhew, Tina Gabriele, Alana Ireland, Kerri Murray and Gavin Peat - Educational Leadership (Group): Health Champions Committee
Shelly Russell-Mayhew - Award for Graduate Supervision
Aubrey Hanson - Teaching in Online Environments
2017
Faculty of Social Work and Werklund School of Education, Advancing Healthy and Socially Just Schools and Communities – Award for Curriculum Development
Catherine Burwell – Award for Full-time Academic Staff
Katherine Mueller – Award for Sessional Instructor
Jim Reilly – Award for Workplace Integrated Education
2015
Werklund School of Education, Bachelor of Education program – Award for Curriculum Development
Jennifer Lock – Award for Educational Leadership, (formal role)
Jo Towers – Award for Full-time Academic Staff
Barb Brown – Award for Teaching in Online Environments
Yang (Flora) Liu – Award for Graduate Assistants (Teaching)
2014
Janet Groen – Award for Full-time Academic Staff
Peggy Patterson – Award for Graduate Supervision
Barbara Brydges – Award for Academic Librarians, Archivists and Curators
Meadow Schoeder – Award for Teaching in Online Environments
2024
Teaching Excellence: Brittany Harker Martin
Leadership in Education: Aubrey Hanson
Sessional Instructor Award: Marcia Kim
2023
Teaching Excellence: Michelle Kilborn
Leadership in Education: Sarah Eaton
Sessional Instructor Award: Garry Jones
2022
Teaching Excellence: Umit Boz
Sessional Instructor Award: Verena Roberts
2021
Teaching Excellence: Tanya Mudry
Leadership in Education: Beaumie Kim
Excellence Instructing in Online Environments: Roswita Dressler
Sessional Instructor Award: Sandra Duggleby
2020
Teaching Excellence: Miwa Takeuchi
Leadership in Education: Erica Makarenko
Excellence Instructing in Online Environments: Patricia Danyluk, Theodora Kapoyannis and Astrid Kendrick
Sessional Instructor Award: Polly Knowlton Cockett
2019
Teaching Excellence: Man-Wai Chu
Leadership in Education: Barb Brown
Excellence Instructing in Online Environments: Katie Crossman
Sessional Instructor Award: Nadia Delanoy
2018
Teaching Excellence: David Scott
Leadership in Education: Jac Andrews
2017
Teaching Excellence: Amy Burns
Leadership in Teaching: Catherine Burwell
2016
Teaching Excellence: Yvonne Poitras-Pratt
Leadership in Education: Dianne Gereluk
2015
Teaching Excellence: Sarah Eaton
Leadership in Education: Tonya Callaghan
2014
Teaching Excellence: Barb Brown, Catherine Burwell, and Adam McCrimmon
Leadership in Education: Michele Jacobsen
2013
Teaching Excellence: Kent Donlevy and Andreea Cervatiuc
Leadership in Education: Sharon Friesen, Jennifer Lock, and Bonnie Shapiro
2012
Teaching Excellence: Jennifer Lock, Michele Jacobsen, and Candace Saar
The Academic Support Offices (Research, Teaching, International) are inviting you to apply for a Academic Support Offices Grant: Award Package Pathway Preparation. This grant is to help you prepare and assemble an award package. Nominating someone for an Award or receiving an award is becoming more and more important at the University of Calgary, so we would like to encourage all colleagues to consider applying or nominating a colleague for an award.
- Academic Support Offices Grant: Award Package Pathway Preparation - Academic staff are encouraged to use this funding to hire a graduate or undergraduate student as a research assistant to help prepare and assemble an award package.
Application deadline for this support grant: Ongoing and based on availability of funds.
The application for the grants is available here and you can contact the Associate Deans in the Academic Support Offices for more information about this grant opportunity: Shelly Russell-Mayhew for Research & Leadership Awards, Barb Brown for Teaching & Learning Awards, and Roswita Dressler for International & EDI Awards.
The Werklund School of Education and University of Calgary also support the nomination process for external awards that are available nationally and internationally. More information on the support offer by the university through the External Teaching and Learning Awards Committee is available here. For support from the Werklund Office of Teaching and Learning, including review and copy editing, contact us by email at tandl@ucalgary.ca.
Werklund School of Education Award Winners
2022 D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning
Shelly Russell-Mayhew, Louise McClelland and Kerri Murray
Teachers of Tomorrow: Transforming Education by Facilitating a Culture of Wellbeing in Bachelor of Education Programs
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2021 Alan Blizzard Award
Yvonne Poitras Pratt and Patricia Danyluk
Modelling Reconciliation: Educators Building Bridges and Connections
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1997 3M National Teaching Fellow
Anthony Marini, University of Calgary Faculty of Education
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