Education Programs of the Year Award

Four awards are designed to recognize innovative education programs that meet member needs and increase the quality of professionalism in the real estate field.

Individual programs may be entered in any or all of the following categories:

• Legal: Includes courses covering a broad range of topics such as contracts, breach of contract, financial obligations, broker responsibility, agency relationships, client obligations, disclosure, misrepresentation, laws, offer presentation and negotiation, MLS rules, fair housing rules, or other such topics.
• Marketing: Includes courses designed to help agents list, price, promote, advertise, and sell properties. Also includes strategies to gain seller and buyer clients, how to market to those clients or marketing retention strategies, building repeat business or a referral network, or entering new market segments; may also discuss particular strategies such as farming, print, online, incorporating technology, etc.
• Series or Shorts: Includes a short class devoted to a hot topic or an issue that members are struggling with, a series of classes focusing on different aspects of an issue or further in-depth exploration of the same problem. It could be your most popular class that is always requested or an education staple. It can serve to give clients an overview of a new issue or market change or provide weekly or monthly tips to REALTORS®. Examples for a series might include: staging, open house tips, and providing feedback to clients; or preliminary lender information and requirements, money needed for an offer, including down payment amount, and funds needed at closing, including tax escrows, etc.
• Innovative: Includes any course not in the above categories that helps agents achieve, excel, motivate, prosper, and ultimately better serve homebuyers and sellers. Did your association create a course based on member feedback, to respond to a specific need in the industry, or to help agents diversify their business? Do you have a new twist on an old trick, a new approach to a well-known problem, or a new delivery method or concept? Enter it here.

Nomination Criteria

A maximum of 100 total points may be earned by adding the scores from each of the criteria. 

• Member Impact (50%)
  • How has the program increased REALTORS® ability to effectively represent clients, grow their businesses, and improve the overall REALTOR® experience? 
• Contribution to professionalism (25%)
  • How has this program increased REALTORS® commitment to professionalism, the NAR Code of Ethics, and their own education? 
• Innovation (25%)
  • How has this program improved upon existing education offerings, changed the landscape of education, or created new avenues for REALTOR® education? 

Further information about the evaluation process can be found here. 

Instructions

• Individual programs may be nominated in multiple categories. Submit one nomination form per program, per category. If you are nominating one program in three categories, submit three nomination forms. 
• Nominators are encouraged to submit supporting documentation for their nomination (advertisements, course materials, etc.) Please note any documents submitted to Texas REALTORS® cannot be returned.

Eligibility

All Texas REALTORS® and associations may submit programs (seminars, workshops, training programs, orientations, etc.) for consideration. To be considered, a program must have been offered in the current year. Programs that have previously received this award are not eligible. 

Questions? Contact Jazz Lough. 

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Previous Winners

Legal Category

Marketing Category

Series or Shorts Category

Innovative Category