Outstanding Educator
Will Bollwerk
Will Bollwerk implemented a partnership with PLT to introduce environmental education into all 84 Head Start preschool classrooms in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Service Learning
Outstanding Educator
Student Sustainability Group Leads Reforestation Effort
“Students for Sustainability” are working to reduce the carbon footprint of their high school and community in Washington State. In a relatively short amount of time, they’ve already revitalized local reforestation efforts.
Outstanding Educator
Annie Oxarart
Annie Oxarart is an environmental education program coordinator at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who led Florida’s GreenSchools pilot program.
Outstanding Educator
Michael Hotz
Michael Hotz is a science teacher at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas, who focuses on environmental education and leads his school’s Green Team.
Outstanding Educator
Donald Sprangers
Donald (Don) Sprangers is a science teacher at Washington Academy in Machias, Maine, who has integrated PLT into many of his lesson plans.
Outstanding Educator
Jennifer Edwards
Jennifer Edwards is the lead science teacher at Ronald Brown Academy in Detroit, Michigan, where she inspires students through PLT lessons and field trips.
Outstanding Educator
John Hunt
John Hunt is a professor in the Teacher Education & Leadership program at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi, and is committed to environmental education.
Outstanding Educator
Lisa Saunders
Lisa Saunders teaches fifth graders at Bicentennial Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire, and promotes the use of the PLT curriculum.
Outstanding Educator
Jessica Olenych
Jessica Olenych works with K-12 students and teachers in Arkville, New York, on forestry and watershed education, through Common Ground Educational Consulting.
Outstanding Educator
Sara Ivey
Sara Ivey is the Executive Director of the Oklahoma GreenSchools Program at the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, where she advocates for environmental education.