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Outstanding Educator
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.

Outstanding Educator
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.

Outstanding Educator
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.

Outstanding Educator
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.

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.