Outstanding Educators

Outstanding Educator
Usha Rajdev

Usha is an Associate Professor at Marymount University in Virginia who trains her students to utilize PLT’s resources and has led teaching groups to India.

Outstanding Educator
Tracy McMullen

Tracy is an Environmental Education Coordinator at the DeVries Nature Conservancy in Owosso, Michigan. She has shared PLT with thousands of educators.

Outstanding Educator
Kyle Langille

Kyle is the principal at Bicentennial Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire, where she helped implement green initiatives and PLT resources in every grade.

Outstanding Educator
Karen Mack

Karen, a Co-Director at Aleph Academy who teaches at the University of Nevada in Reno, has trained thousands of educators in PLT workshops.

Outstanding Educator
Ken Bowald

Ken is an Associate Dean at the Hocking College School of Natural Resources in Ohio. He implemented PLT into the school’s curriculum.

Outstanding Educator
Cynthia Gardner

Cynthia is Assistant Professor and Elementary Education Coordinator at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. She is one of the state’s most active PLT facilitators.

Outstanding Educator
Doug Chapman

Doug is a fifth grade science teacher at Wolford Elementary School in McKinney, Texas. He encourages students to participate in environmental service-learning projects.

Outstanding Educator
Trish Penny

Trish is an Education Coordinator at the Laramie Rivers Conservation District in Wyoming. She has educated thousands of adults and children using PLT programs.

Outstanding Educator
Joy Barney

Joy Barney is a conservation education program specialist with the U.S. Forest Service who coordinates environmental programs around Lake Tahoe in California.

Outstanding Educator
Cindy Kilpatrick

Cindy Kilpatrick, the Environmental Science Facilitator at Oil City Magnet School in Oil City, Louisiana, coordinated more than 100 environmental field trips in one year,