Created in 2001 by the Public Relations Committee and the Executive Committee, the Five Star Award honors local affiliates that are leaders in involvement with the Association. This year’s list of winners includes a number of local affiliates who are receiving this award for the first time.

To receive the Five-Star Local Award, a local association needed to fulfill five of the following criteria during the 2011-12 school year:

1. send a representative to both NEOEA Representative Assemblies;
2. send a representative to both OEA Representative Assemblies;
3. send a member to attend at least one NEOEA workshop other than NEOEA Day;
4. send a representative to at least half of the meetings of a UniServ Council that met at least three times;
5. have at least 25% of its members contributing to the Ohio Fund for Children and Public Education (FCPE); and
6. submit an application for at least one of the following awards:

• Community Involvement Grant
• Newsletter Award
• Positive Image Award
• Public Relations Mini-Grant

• ACCESS
• Ashtabula ACSE
• Austintown EA
• Barberton EA
• Bay TA
• Bedford EA #
• Brecksville-Broadview EA
• Brunswick EA
• Brunswick ESP Assn.
• Canfield EA
• Cardinal EA
• Champion EA
• Clearview EA
• Crestwood EA *
• Cuyahoga Heights Assn. of Teachers
• East Cleveland EA
• Elyria EA
• Euclid TA #
• Field Local TA
• Garfield Heights TA
• Howland Classroom TA #
• Kenston EA
• Lakewood TA
• Lorain County JVS TA
• Madison EA *
• Maple Heights TA
• Mayfield EA
• Mentor Classified Employees
• Mentor TA
• Nordonia Hills Educators’ Assn.
• North Ridgeville EA *
• Painesville City TA #
• Prof. Assn. for the Teach. of the MR (PATMR)
• Riverside Local EA
• Sandusky EA
• Sheffield-Sheffield Lake TA
• Southeast Local District TA
• Streetsboro EA
• Strongsville EA *
• Trumbull CTC EA *
• Twinsburg EA #
• Vermilion TA
• Warren EA #
• Weaver Workshop and Support Assn.
• Willoughby-Eastlake TA
• Youngstown EA

* Indicates first-time award recipient.
# Indicates local received all six stars available.