- Nominators should provide sufficient information to give the selection committee a complete picture of the nominee’s character and his/her achievements. Please provide as much detail as possible for consideration by the selection committee. Additional pages are admissible.
- Nominees must exemplify DDSB character traits (teamwork, responsibility, respect, perseverance, optimism, kindness, integrity, honesty, empathy, courage).
- Nominees must be positive role models in their community and for our students.
- Nominees have achieved outstanding success in realizing their goals, (career, community activism, overcoming obstacles, etc.)
- Nominees should be representative of the diverse student and staff population at the DDSB.
- Nominees should be representative of diverse geographic areas of the Durham District School Board.
- Nominees should be representative of a diversity of accomplishments (arts, sports, business, overcoming obstacles, etc.).
- Nominees cannot be a current staff member, Trustee or student or immediate family member (nominee’s spouse, parents and grandparents, children and grandchildren, brothers and sisters, mother in law and father in law, brothers in law and sisters in law, daughters in law and sons in law or adopted, half, and step members) of the current Director of Education, members of the senior leadership team or sitting members of the Board of Trustees.
- Nominees must have spent a minimum of four years as a student of the DDSB.
- Nominees can be inductees in an existing DDSB school's Hall of Fame.
Deadline for nominations: July 15, 2026 @ 4:00 p.m.