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.
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.
Barbara Cook teaches science, reading, and computers to grades 7-8 at Greenfield Middle School in Greenfield, Ohio. She also facilitates environmental education presentations.
Anne Bohnet directs the Science and Technology Enrichment Program for grades 3-12 at the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center in Aiken, South Carolina.
Robin Nelson is an environmental education coordinator for the Alabama Department of Education in Montgomery. She developed a secondary curriculum called Water Sourcebook.
Barbara Patterson is an instructor at Front Range Community College in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she teaches about forestry, wildlife, and natural resources using PLT.
Florie Babcock is a professor of early childhood education at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, where her students adapt PLT lessons for use with preschoolers.
Judy Mansfield teaches second grade at Mount Harmony Elementary School, Owings, Maryland. She uses books about local ecology and involves her students in environmental projects.
Micheline Hickenbotham is an assistant professor of education at Black Hills State University, Spearfish, South Dakota. She uses PLT to teach Science and Math Methods.
Auburn Carpenter is the education projects manager at Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi, where she uses PLT in a vidoconferencing series to reach students.
Ellen Reynolds is the executive director of the nonprofit Beagle Ridge Environmental Education Center in Wytheville, Virginia, and provides educational programs to three counties.