2025 - Competitive Events

The official 2025 Educators Rising Competitions and Contests are below.  All are linked to the PDK/Educators Rising portal where you will find competition/contest descriptions, guidelines, and rubrics.  Educators Rising Virginia uses the National resources for the Educators Rising Virginia State Competitions and Student Leadership Conference.  

Please note ALL 2025 COMPETITIVE EVENTS (competitions and contests) WILL BE HELD IN PERSON
and REQUIRE SUBMISSION OF ARTIFACTS IN ADVANCE OF THE MARCH 1, 2025, IN PERSON Competition for Pre-Scoring.

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​Click Here to Read the 2025 Competitive Events Guidelines and
​Artifact Submission Expectations for Educators Rising Virginia
Coming Soon!

Teacher Leaders and Students are expected to read this document linked above IN ITS ENTIRETY prior to registering for competitions/contests and submitting artifacts for pre-scoring.

Artifacts should be submitted
​no later than 5 p.m. on February 6, 2025.

High School (Junior Varsity and Varsity)
Competitions

• Children’s Literature – K-3 (individual or dual)
• Children’s Literature – Pre-K (individual or dual)
• Children's Literature – K-3 – Spanish - (individual or dual)
• Children's Literature – Pre-K – Spanish (individual or dual)
• Creative Lecture (TED Talk) (Individual)
• Educators Rising Leadership Award (Individual - Varsity Only)
• Educators Rising Moment (Individual)
• Educators Rising Moment - Spanish (Individual)
• Ethical Dilemma (Team)
• Exploring Education Administration Careers (Individual)
• Exploring Non-Core Subject Teaching Careers (Individual)
• Exploring Support Services Careers (Individual)
• ​Inside Our Schools Presentation (Team
• Inside Our Schools Presentation - Spanish (Team)
• Job Interview (Individual)
• Lesson Planning & Delivery – Arts* (Individual)
• Lesson Planning & Delivery – Career & Technical Education* (Individual)
• Lesson Planning & Delivery – Humanities* (Individual)
• Lesson Planning & Delivery - Spanish* (Individual)
• Lesson Planning & Delivery – STEM* (Individual)
• Outstanding Chapter (Team - Varsity Only)
• Public Service Announcement - Teacher Recruitment (Team)
• Public Speaking (Individual)
• Researching Learning Challenges (Team) 

High School ​(Junior Varsity and Varsity)
Contests

• Interactive Bulletin Board - Elementary (Individual or Dual)
• Interactive Bulletin Board - Middle/High (Individual or Dual)
• Project Visualize--Service Project (Individual or Dual)
• Teacher Created Materials (Individual or Dual)

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Please check competition materials for plagiarism prior to submission.  If competition entries contain plagiarized content, they will be disqualified.


Additional Guidance for
Competitions and Contests

*A note about Lesson Planning and Delivery:  The topic of your lesson is determined by the learning target/objective and NOT by an activity.
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