Published 12 Feb 2025
Nominate a teacher or school in the 2025 Australian Education Awards
The Australian Education Awards showcase the top-performing schools, principals, department heads and teachers for their outstanding achievements and transformative work that makes a profound difference to the lives of young people across Australia.
A nationwide call for nominations is open to any individual or school operating in the Australian K-12 education industry, nominations can be made either on their own behalf or for another individual or school.
Nominations
Nominations should focus on achievements and results from the previous 12 months. All information contained in the entries that is marked confidential will be treated as such and not be released without permission of the entrant.
All nominations must be submitted via the official Australian Education Awards online portal.
Nominations close Friday 14 March 2025.
Award categories
Individual awards
- Department Head of the Year
- Deputy Principal of the Year
- Education Rising Star of the Year
- Primary School Principal of the Year - Government
- Primary School Principal of the Year - Non-government
- Primary School Teacher of the Year - Government
- Primary School Teacher of the Year - Non - government
- School Principal of the Year - Government
- School Principal of the Year - Non-Government
- Secondary School Teacher of the Year - Government
- Secondary School Teacher of the Year - Non-government
Curriculum Awards
- Best Co-Curricular Program
- Best STEM Program
- Best Use of Technology
- Innovation in Curriculum Design
- Innovation in Learning Environment Design
School Awards
- Best First Nations Education Program
- Best Professional Learning Program
- Best School Strategic Plan
- Best Student Wellbeing Program
- Boarding School of the Year
- Primary School of the Year - Government
- Primary School of the Year - Non-government
- Regional School of the Year
- Secondary School of the Year - Government
- Secondary School of the Year - Non-government
- Special Education School of the Year