Twenty Teachers Named Finalists for 2022 Golden Apple Awards!

Executive Director Jennifer Stark joined the Morning Crew at WTVO17/WQRF39 to announce the Top 20 Finalists who will continue in the next step of the selection process to determine five Golden Apple Teacher Award recipients for 2022.

The Golden Apple Teacher Award is a community selection process with three primary goals:

• To support, motivate and honor great teachers
• To involve the community in our schools
• To pass forward a legacy of excellence

In the next step in the process, these teachers will be observed in their classrooms by trained community volunteers and evaluated on classroom atmosphere, rapport with students, classroom management, lesson content, teaching techniques and professionalism. Then, the 20 Finalists will be interviewed. Five will be selected as the Golden Apple recipients based on all their evaluations.

The five recipients are presented in March with the prestigious Golden Apple Award in a surprise classroom presentation. Then on April 29, 2022, they will be honored at the annual Golden Apple Award Banquet and rewarded with scholarships, stipends and resources to enhance their classrooms.

Golden Apple Teachers are inducted into the Golden Apple Teacher Academy and are committed to enhancing the Academy’s mission by mentoring student teachers and sharing their knowledge with other educators. More than 187 teachers have already been rewarded and participate in this wonderful program.

Please join us in congratulating these 20 excellent educators: