01
May
2025 Excellence in Education Banquet Held April 25
Our 2025 Excellence in Education banquet was Friday, April 25, at Tebala Event Center, where more than 400 supporters of education dine...
Posts by Kathi Edwards
01
May
Gayle Haab Named 2025 Jan Jones Service Award recipient
Gayle Haab is a shining example of serving students and education through volunteer service. We were so happy to present her as the 202...
26
Mar
Megan Forsythe named 2025 GA Outstanding Principal
On March 19, Golden Apple Foundation of Rockford traveled to Whitman Post Elementary in Rockton to surprise -- or maybe even shock -- p...
26
Mar
Golden Apple Day 2025 surprised six area teachers
On March 6, a slew of community-minded, education supporters got together and traveled throughout Winnebago County to surprise six teac...
19
Feb
Kalli Bruck
Kalli Bruck of Loves Park is in her second year teaching early childhood at Caledonia Elementary School. She’s been teaching for 21 years.
18
Feb
Lisa Wight
Fifth grade teacher Lisa Wight of Rockton has taught 10 of her 11 years of teaching at Durand Elementary School.
18
Feb
Chelsea Rawhoof
Chelsea Rawhoof of Pecatonica has spent all her 13 years of teaching at Pecatonica Elementary School, where she has taught first through fourth grade. She is now a “looping teacher,” teaching second grade this year, but carrying this class forward teaching them third grade next year.
17
Feb
Danielle Vanek
Danielle Vanek of Machesney Park is an English teacher. She’s taught the past five of her 15 years of teaching at South Beloit’s Willowbrook Middle School.
13
Feb
Jackie Weerda
Jackie Weerda of Rockton teaches Kindergarten at Roscoe’s Ledgewood Elementary, where she’s been 15 of her 20 years as an educator.
12
Feb
Shiana Robertson
Shiana Robertson of Rockford has been teaching third grade at Rockford’s Washington Elementary School the past three of her 11 years as a teacher.