Outstanding Educator
Joy Cowart
Joy Cowart uses PLT to teach language arts and English as a second language to grades 6-12 at Lowndes County Schools in Valdosta, Georgia.
Service Learning
Outstanding Educator
Outstanding Educator
Reeda Hart
Reeda Hart, a science outreach specialist at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky, helped develop PLT’s Early Childhood curriculum.
Outstanding Educator
Susan Cox
Susan Cox, a conservation education coordinator for the U.S. Forest Service in Durham, New Hampshire, forges partnerships between natural resource professionals and educators.
Outstanding Educator
Kurtis Koll
Kurtis Koll, a professor of physical sciences at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, created a series of environmental education courses for pre-service science teachers.
Outstanding Educator
Barbara Murphy
As Gifted Specialist at Westlawn Middle School in Huntsville, Alabama, Barbara Murphy teaches environmental education and Spanish and conducts enrichment classes.
Outstanding Educator
Sue Keene
Sue Keene, a teacher in residence at the University of Indianapolis in Indiana, is a PLT facilitator who is helping create a PLT technology guide.
Outstanding Educator
Schanee’ Anderson
Schanee’ Anderson, Curator of Education at the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, uses PLT to teach students who visit the zoo.
Outstanding Educator
Robin McCartney
Robin McCartney, associate professor at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette, teaches science methods to pre-service and PreK-3 teachers and Master’s students.
Outstanding Educator
Melissa Eldridge
As the District Manager for Ionia Conservation District in Ionia, Michigan, Melissa Eldridge helped restore a local nature trail and promotes PLT activities.
Outstanding Educator
Laura Beiser
Laura Beiser is an environmental administrator with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality in Jackson who works with nonprofits that do watershed environmental education.