All-Star Awards Ceremony

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    Recognizing the achievements of PPS’s students of color and students who are new to Portland/United States

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    Featured organizations flyerAt Portland Public Schools, our priority is to elevate student voice, and to focus our work on creating an inspired, equitable, and rigorous educational experience for every student. It is particularly important that we honor our students who represent racially diverse ethnic and cultural groups across the district and have excelled despite the systemic challenges they face every day.

    These students deserve recognition by both Portland Public Schools and those who have been instrumental in their success. Historically, we honored these students in distinct recognition ceremonies including Golden Minds, Si Se Puede, Young, Gifted, and Black, and Native American Honor Day. At each event, our diverse communities rallied around our students in acknowledgment of their academic success, resilience, commitment to their culture, and personal development.

    We are grateful for the work of our community to create customized recognition experiences for students that affirms their identities. This year we will build on those efforts and celebrate our collective achievements in an inclusive, single recognition ceremony that provides students with a distinguished experience while preserving the cultural elements that made each prior event unique. The evening will feature each student group, e.g., Golden Minds, New Portlanders, Si Se Puede, Take Flight Native Pride, and Young, Gifted, and Black, and will also be accompanied by student storytelling, performances, keynote addresses, and artifacts that represent our students’ diverse experiences. Our goal is to showcase a powerful display of support to increase visibility for our diverse students and admiration for their cultures.

  • 2025 All-Star Awards Nominations

    As part of our commitment to Racial Equity and Social Justice and our vision of the Graduate Portrait, the All-Star Awards serves as an extension of the vision of Portland Public Schools ReImagined.

     

    The All-Star Awards Ceremony is Portland Public Schools’ premier recognition event for students and communities of color to relish in a night full of excellence, community, and celebration. The event features five group recognitions:

     

    • API Voices for Asian and Pacific Islander student honorees

    • New Portlanders for students honorees who’ve recently made Portland home

    • Sí Se Puede for Latinx student honorees

    • Take Flight Native Pride for American Indian and Alaska Native student honorees

    • Young, Gifted, and Black for African, Black, and African American student honorees

     

    These five recognition groups come from previous individual recognition celebrations that once were all separate celebrations put on by the communities for the students and communities of that recognition group.  As an effort to support all celebrations as a district, we have brought all celebrations together into one celebration. 

     

    We recognize that our students demonstrate excellence in many ways including being critical thinkers, life long learners, transformative leaders, and through their commitment to their culture and communities. If you know a student who deserves to be recognized and celebrated for who they are and what they’ve accomplished, please nominate them to be an All Star!

     

    To nominate a student, please use this form. Nominations will be open Monday, January 27, 2025 and close on Monday, February 24, 2025. Please submit 1 nomination per student even if the student may qualify for multiple awards. Students will be honored on Thursday, May 15th, 2025.

     

    Nominations can be made by teachers, staff, parents, and community members. 

     

    If you are interested in serving on any of the subcommittees to select honorees, contact Yian Saechao in the RESJ Department at yisaechao@pps.net.

     

    Translated Nomination Forms: 

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All-Star Awardees

  • API Scholars

  • New Portlanders

  • ¡Sí Se Puede!

  • Take Flight, Native Pride

  • Young Gifted and Black