7 area educators awarded KCTS Golden Apples
Several Seattle-area educators, schools and programs were awarded the KCTS-TV Golden Apple Awards this week. The awards are given to seven individuals and three programs that are “making a positive difference in Washington state education.”
Winners receive a statuette and money - $250 for individual winners; $500 for programs - as well as $1,500 to support their classroom, school or program. Recipients will be honored during a January ceremony and featured in a broadcast on KCTS-TV in February.
Judges of the more than 200 nominees included representatives of the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Washington Education Association and the Seattle School Board.
The individual winners were:
• Kathryn Boudreau-Stroud, a science teacher at Beaver Lake Middle School in Issaquah;
• Scott Brown, band director and music teacher at Roosevelt High School in Seattle;
• Judy Bruggeman, the transition coordinator for special-education students at Enumclaw High School;
• Richard Byrnes, band director and music teacher at Henry Foss High School in Tacoma;
• Mari Knowles, a teacher at Mountlake Terrace Elementary School;
• and Tracey Lundquist, a reading and fine-arts teacher at Tyee Park Elementary School in Lakewood, Pierce County.
In addition, Masako Davidson, a part-time reading teacher for bilingual students at Beacon Hill Elementary School in Seattle, was awarded the Stanley O. McNaughton Golden Apple Award for her work with families and children learning English.
The programs that won were: the 826 Seattle writing program, which offers writing workshops and programs; the Bright Future Program in Seattle and other districts, which provides vocational training to at-risk high-school students; and Community Opportunities for Parenting Education, or COPE, which serves teenagers and young adults in Aberdeen who have dropped out of high school.
Emily Heffter: 206-464-8246 or eheffter@seattletimes.com