Education Level

Outstanding Educator
Beth Girard

Beth Girard is Acting School Forest Coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Outstanding Educator
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.

Outstanding Educator
Julie McIntosh

Julie McIntosh is an assistant professor of education at the University of Findlay, Findlay, Ohio. She teaches early childhood and high school science methods classes.

Outstanding Educator
Kari Abbott

Kari Abbott is a classroom volunteer and the volunteer chairperson for the 4-H Junior Master Gardener Project at Virginia Cooperative Extension, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Outstanding Educator
Jane Thornes

Jane Thornes teaches fourth grade at Heyburn Elementary School in St. Maries, Idaho, and uses her own working forest as an outdoor classroom.

Outstanding Educator
Brenda Smith

Brenda Smith teaches fourth grade at Oil City Elementary Magnet School, Oil City, and helped her school become one of Louisiana’s four PLT-certified schools.

Outstanding Educator
Barbara Cook

Barbara Cook teaches science, reading, and computers to grades 7-8 at Greenfield Middle School in Greenfield, Ohio. She also facilitates environmental education presentations.

Outstanding Educator
Anne Bohnet

Anne Bohnet directs the Science and Technology Enrichment Program for grades 3-12 at the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center in Aiken, South Carolina.

Outstanding Educator
Robin Nelson

Robin Nelson is an environmental education coordinator for the Alabama Department of Education in Montgomery. She developed a secondary curriculum called Water Sourcebook.