2021 Successes
Name | School/DISCIPLINE | Award |
Silas Hibbs | Hays High School |
Mr. Hibbs was one of only five teachers statewide to be honored by the KS Youth Entrepreneurship Council. |
2020 Successes
Name | School/DISCIPLINE | Award |
Dr. Kelley Emmett | Washington High School/KC |
Teacher of Promise - nominated by FHSU |
Rogie Dorpinghaus | St. Francis Comm HS/Journalism |
Her students won the 2020 Kansas Scholastic Press Association's 1A State Championship |
2019 Successes
Name | School/DISCIPLINE | Award |
Alyssa Dawson | Ellis High School/ English |
Named 2019 Yale Educator by Yale University, the only Kansas Educator in Kansas to receive the award. The award recognizes outstanding educators from around the world. |
Katie Western | Marshall Middle School/Wichita-Science |
Teacher of Promise - nominated by FHSU |
2017 Successes
Name | School/DISCIPLINE | Award |
Heidi Albin | Complete High School-Maize/Science |
Received prestigious $25,000 Milken Educator Award. She was one of only 45 honorees across the nation receiving this award. |
Luke Johnson | Victoria/K-12 Music teacher |
National quarterfinalist for the 2017 Music Educator Award by the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum. The award was created as a way to recognize current educators who have made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of music education. |
Monica Cabrera Johnson | Washington High School/KC-Spanish |
Rotary Club Outstanding High School Teachers |
2011 Successes
Name | School/DISCIPLINE | Award |
Jim Deane | Ottawa High School/ Physics |
Named Outstanding Physics Teacher for the AAPT Arkansas- Oklahoma-Kansas section at the annual meeting. |
Kansas Horizon Award Winners
This award by the Kansas State Department of Education recognizes representatives of excellent teaching in Kansas.
The mission of the program is to recognize exemplary first-year teachers who perform in a way that distinguishes them as outstanding.
Year | Name | School | Award |
2022 | Lindsey Kepka | Hutchinson Virtual School | Business |
2022 | Christine Pianalto | McPherson High School | Chemistry |
2022 | Katelyn Stoss | Plum Creek Elementary School, Buhler | Music |
2022 | Kassie Campidilli | Goddard High School | Family and Consumer Science |
2021 | Paige Stewart | Hutchinson Middle School | English |
2021 | Tricia Wyckoff | Southeast Elementary School-Cherokee | Art |
2021 | Susan Specht | Shawnee Mission Northwest High School | Physical Education |
2020 | Heather Corley | Anderson County Jr-Sr High School-Garnett |
Family and Consumer Science |
2019 | Logan Pegram | Anderson County Jr-Sr High School-Garnett |
History |
2017 | Carter Kruger | Liberal High School |
Math |
2017 | Ashley Winger | Salina West Alternative Program | Biology |
2017 | Jennifer Daley | Shawnee Heights High School-Tecumseh | Journalism |
2017 | Penny Seifert | Turner Sixth Grade Academy-KC | Math |
2017 | Cady Jackson | Valley Center High School | English |
2017 | Nova Latta | Chisholm Middle School-Newton | English |
2011 | Heidi Albin | Complete High School-Maize | Science |