Outstanding Educator
Gail Lutowski
Gail Lutowski is an education program specialist for the Mary Kahrs Warnell Forest Education Center in Guyton, Georgia, whose programs have reached over 20,000 people.
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Jim Chandler
Jim Chandler is a consulting teacher in science for the Auburn School Department, Auburn, Maine, and director of the Auburn Land Lab, an environmental center.
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Melanie Cornelius
Melanie Cornelius is an elementary science instruction specialist in Frisco Independent School District, Frisco, Texas, who helps teachers in 22 schools deliver science education.
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Hazel Scharosch
Hazel Scharosch teaches grades K-6 at Red Creek Elementary School, a one-room schoolhouse in Casper, Wyoming, where she has led many PLT workshops.
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Sandy Watson
Sandy Watson teaches second grade at Lakewood Elementary School, Phenix City, Alabama, where she helped create an outdoor classroom, nature trail, and school gardens.
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John Wainscott
John Wainscott, acting area manager and mid-rotation forester at Weyerhaeuser Company in Hot Springs, Arkansas, teaches about forestry through forest tours and classroom visits.
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Gail Milligan
Gail Milligan teaches English language arts and literature to sixth graders at Adair County Elementary School in Columbia, Kentucky. She is also a PLT facilitator.
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Larry Raymond
Larry Raymond is the director of parks and recreation for Caddo Parish Commission in Shreveport, Louisiana, and has conducted PLT workshops for 20 years.
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Beth Girard
Beth Girard is Acting School Forest Coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Katharine Fralick
Katharine Fralick is a professor of education at Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire, where she trains all of her undergraduate education students in PLT.