Coordinators' Corner

Important Dates:

End of January/early February
County coordinators receive word lists for District and County/Regional contests.

February/March
School and District contests

April/May
County contests

May 31st:
Deadline to send in the List of County Winners.

Click here to notify Oregon Spellers of your county winners

The ABCs of Organizing a Spelling Contest

You'll find everything you need to know in the How To Organize A Spelling Contest document.

The Quick Start Guide will give you an overview of the process.

Files to Download:

Templates

Overview of the Contest Progression

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If you need volunteers to help with your district or county/regional contests, consider asking service groups (e.g. Kiwanis, Elks, etc.) or educational groups (e.g. AAUW, etc.). They may be willing to volunteer and/or provide prizes for the winners (or even the winners' schools).

CLASSROOM CONTEST:
Each Classroom holds a spelling contest to determine that classroom’s top speller.

SCHOOL CONTEST:
The top one or two spellers* from each Classroom competes in their Division (see diagram) of the School level spelling competition. Very small schools might eliminate the classroom contest and just hold a school-wide contest.

DISTRICT CONTEST:
The top one or two spellers* in each Division from each school in the district compete in their Division at the District competition.

COUNTY CONTEST:
Each County may send its highest scoring speller from EACH Division (unless there is a tie for 1st place, then both winners may attend). If 1st place winners are unable to attend, 2nd place spellers will be invited to attend in their place.

REGIONAL CONTEST:
Each COUNTY participating in a REGIONAL Contest may send its highest scoring speller from EACH Division (unless there is a tie for 1st place, then both winners may attend). If 1st place winners are unable to attend, 2nd place spellers will be invited to attend in their place.

* Schools and Districts may determine, according to their own population distribution, whether to send one or two top spellers from each Division to the next level of competition. If they send two spellers, they should be the 1st and 2nd place spellers or two tied 1st place spellers. Each County can only send ONE top speller to the OREGON STATEWIDE SPELLING CHAMPIONSHIP, except in the case of a first-place tie.