Advisor of the Year
SkillsUSA Tennessee's Advisor of the Year award recognizes and honors dedicated career and technical education instructors who serve as SkillsUSA advisors. The award recipient will be recognized at the SkillsUSA Tennessee State Leadership and Skills Conference.
The award recipient will be eligible for the following year's national nomination for SkillsUSA Advisor of the Year. 2021 Advisor of the Year Recipient: Tobey Alonso, Coffee County Central High School |
Paul Adler Service Award
SkillsUSA Tennessee's Paul Adler Service Award recognizes and honors educators who are committed to improving career and technical education through SkillsUSA activities. The award recipient will be recognized at the SkillsUSA Tennessee State Leadership and Skills Conference.
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The nominee must:
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During state officer led screening, the nominee must be able to:
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2021 Paul Adler Service Award Recipient: Tammy Turner, Volunteer High School
Tammy Turner has been actively involved with SkillsUSA for 34 years as a student, alumni, and advisor. After teaching for many years at a private school, Ms. Turner has served as the Cosmetology Instructor and SkillsUSA advisor at Volunteer High School in Church Hill, Tennessee for the past 7 years. She promotes SkillsUSA to her students because it "changed my life".
Ms. Turner is a former SkillsUSA student herself under her SkillsUSA advisor, Ms. Shirley Jarnagin. In 1986, she was elected as the Tennessee SkillsUSA State Treasurer. During her State Officer term, she went to Camp Clemonts, state conferences in Oprylands, Arizona, and Kansas. At the 1989 state conference, she competed in the opening and closing ceremonies. During her state officer tenure, she developed her leadership, improved her confidence, learned to be better organized, refined her public speaking, and increased her ease interacting with others. Ms. Turner states she was able to do things that she would have never done had she not gotten involved with the SkillsUSA organization, such as flying in a plane for the first time. Since being a SkillsUSA advisor, she has had 2 students go to Nationals and 4 State Champions. Ms. Turner teaches cosmetology, but she also teaches community service through her work. During the SkillsUSA Week of Service, she takes her cosmetology class to a local nursing home and does nails and haircuts for residents. In addition to her SkillsUSA family, Tammy Turner has been married for 27 years to Kenny Turner. She has two children; Katie, 24, and Patrick, 22. Mrs. Turner was born and raised in Hawkins County, Tennessee. |
Administrator of the Year
SkillsUSA Tennessee's Administrator of the Year award recognizes and honors administrators dedicated to career and technical education and SkillsUSA. The award recipient will be recognized at the SkillsUSA Tennessee State Leadership and Skills Conference.
NOMINATION DEADLINE: February 26, 2021 |