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Heather Plourde
15 Mar
2022 Golden Apple Award Finalists

Heather Plourde

  • March 25, 2022
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Heather Plourde of Rockton has been teaching for 17 years, 15 of them at Rockton’s Hononegah High School.

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Hayley Gotzsche
15 Mar
2022 Golden Apple Award Finalists

Hayley Gotzsche

  • March 25, 2022
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Hayley Gotzsche of Roscoe has been a teacher for eight years, the past three at South Beloit’s Willowbrook Middle School.

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Kelli Houghton
15 Mar
2022 Golden Apple Award Winners

Kelli Houghton

  • March 25, 2022
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Kelli Houghton of Roscoe started teaching at Willowbrook Middle School 20 years ago and never left!

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Lovina Youngman
14 Mar
2022 Golden Apple Award Finalists

Lovina Youngman

  • March 25, 2022
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Lovina Youngman of Rockford has been teaching for 18 years, the past 16 at Belvidere Central Middle School.

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Deanna Ballard
14 Mar
2022 Golden Apple Award Finalists

Deanna Ballard

  • March 25, 2022
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Deanna Ballard of Algonquin is in her 23rd year of teaching. She teaches all types of science classes and has done so at Guilford High School for the past 10 years.

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Adam Pusateri
14 Mar
2022 Golden Apple Award Finalists

Adam Pusateri

  • March 25, 2022
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Adam Pusateri of Rockton has been a teacher for 12 years, the past five at Durand High School.

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Nicole Kroepel
14 Mar
2022 Golden Apple Award Finalists

Nicole Kroepel

  • March 25, 2022
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Nicole Kroepel of Poplar Grove has been teaching for 20 years, with the past 15 as an English teacher at Belvidere North High School.

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Anita Bond
14 Mar
2022 Golden Apple Award Finalists

Anita Bond

  • March 25, 2022
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Anita Bond of Rockton teaches 11th grade U.S. History and 12th grade Sociology. She has taught for 13 years, all at Hononegah.

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Brooke Harp
14 Mar
2022 Golden Apple Award Finalists

Brooke Harp

  • March 25, 2022
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Brooke Harp of Rockford is in her sixth year of teaching. She teaches literature to middle schoolers at Holy Family Catholic School.

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Weston Brabeck
14 Mar
2022 Golden Apple Award Finalists

Weston Brabeck

  • March 25, 2022
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Weston Brabeck of Marengo has been teaching for seven years and has been Guilford High School’s band teacher the past four years.

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