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17 Feb
2025 Golden Apple Award Finalists, Golden Apple News

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.
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13 Feb
2025 Golden Apple Award Recipients, Golden Apple News

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.
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12 Feb
2025 Golden Apple Award Finalists, Golden Apple News

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.
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12 Feb
2025 Golden Apple Award Finalists, Golden Apple News

Amanda Nguyen

Amanda Nguyen of Belvidere, is teaches Kindergarten at Rockford’s West View Elementary, where she’s been the past 10 of her 12 years teaching.
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11 Feb
2025 Golden Apple Award Finalists, Golden Apple News

Elizabeth Wecker

Elizabeth Wecker of Rockton co-teaches fourth/fifth grade math, ELA and special education at Roscoe’s Kinnikinnick School, where she’s been the past four of her 13 years of teaching.
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11 Feb
2025 Golden Apple Award Finalists, Golden Apple News

Belinda Roberts

Belinda Roberts of Belvidere teaches bilingual early childhood classes at Belvidere’s Washington Academy, where she’s been the past 12 of her 29 years as an educator.
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10 Feb
2025 Golden Apple Award Finalists, Golden Apple News

Ryanne Ludington

Ryanne Ludington of Rockford has been spent her whole nine-year teaching career at Rockford’s Bloom Elementary, where she teaches fourth grade.
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10 Feb
2025 Golden Apple Award Recipients, Golden Apple News

Lisa Robinson

Lisa Robinson of Cherry Valley is a Kindergarten teacher at Rolling Green Elementary in Rockford, where she’s been six of her 18 years teaching.
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10 Feb
2025 Golden Apple Award Finalists, Golden Apple News

Nicole Seaver

Nicole Seaver of Rockford is a special education teacher for Kindergarten, first and second grades at Belvidere’s Lincoln Elementary, where she’s been the past three of her 14 years as an educator.
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06 Feb
2025 Golden Apple Award Recipients, Golden Apple News

Jelena Holcomb

Jelena Holcomb of Rockford is a Kindergarten teacher at STEAM Academy at Haskell, where she’s been the past five of her 21 years of teaching.
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