Definitely Durham Regulation

The Durham District School Board (DDSB) is proud of its many students. To showcase the quality of public 
education, the DDSB established a Hall of Fame in 2011 to showcase some of the Board's notable graduates.

There will be a maximum of four inductees per induction ceremony.

An induction ceremony will be conducted immediately prior to the beginning of the February Board meeting 
of the induction year. A ceremony will be held once every three years.

This Regulation supports DDSB By-Law 8A, Section 10.0 "Recognition".

The DDSB will make a call for nominations on the Board's website through media relations, community 
outreach, school newsletters, and social media. The nomination form will be made available on-line and on 
paper. Nominees cannot be a current staff member, Trustee or student or immediate family members 
(nominee's spouse, parents and grandparents, children and grand children, 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.

The application form is attached as Appendix A. 

A deadline for nominations shall be July 15, once every three years, unless determined otherwise by the 
Selection Committee. 

Nominations will be considered only in the year submitted. Nominations can be re-submitted in subsequent 
years.

2.1 Nominees must exemplify DDSB character traits (team work, responsibility, respect, perseverance, optimism, kindness, integrity, honesty, empathy, courage).

2.2 Nominees must be positive role models in their community and for our students.

2.3 Nominees have achieved outstanding success in realizing their goals. (Career, community activism, overcoming obstacles, etc.)

2.4 Nominees should be representative of the diverse student and staff population at the DDSB.

2.5 Nominees should be representative of diverse geographic areas of the Durham District School Board.

2.6 Nominees should be representative of a diversity of accomplishments (arts, sports, business, overcoming obstacles, etc.).

2.7 Nominees must have spent a minimum of four years as a student of the DDSB.

2.8 Nominees can be inductees in an existing DDSB school's Hall of Fame.

The Selection Committee will be comprised of the following:

• Two Trustees as selected by the Chair of the Board
• Director of Education
• Superintendent as selected by the Director of Education
• Parent Involvement Committee member

An announcement relating to the induction ceremony will be made through the Board's website, to staff, 
schools and local officials, as well as advertising through local media. Inductees will also be presented with a 
personal award.

Inductees will be commemorated through a plaque prepared for display in the atrium at the Board's 
Education Centre. In subsequent years, these plaques will be displayed in meeting rooms at the Education 
Centre. 

All nominees and their nominators will be notified of the results of the consideration of their nominations.