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Outstanding Educators to Be Recognized at KCKPS Celebration

Forty-eight teachers in the Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools (KCKPS) will be recognized for their outstanding efforts and dedication to the field at the 2008 KCKPS Star Teacher Celebration set for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30 in the Jewell Center at KCK Community College.

Each year, principals nominate one teacher for the Kansas Teacher of the Year program. The district-wide list of "star teachers" is then reviewed by a committee who selects one elementary and one secondary teacher nomination to forward on to the Kansas Teacher of the Year Program.

This year's KCKPS Teachers of the Year were announced in March. They are: Susan Taylor, kindergarten teacher at Claude Huyck Elementary School; and Cheryl McCabe, English/forensics teacher at F.L. Schlagle High School.

The other 46 Star Teachers are as follows: Richard Gravelle, ATS; Wanda Williams, Argentine; Jennifer Grasela, Arrowhead; Michelle Garrett, Frances Willard/ATS Early Childhood Center; Jennifer Bowar, Banneker; Linda Hollander, Bethel; Zaneta Jordon, Caruthers; Susana Ramirez, Central Elementary; John Lazzo, Central Middle; Barbara Green, Coronado; Tijuana Jackson-Rudolph, Douglass; Rebecca DuVal, Education Center Preschool; Amy Carlson, Eisenhower; Lynn Salisbury, Emerson; Angela Berg, Eugene Ware; Christopher Dennis, Fairfax Campus; Ben Mitchell, Frances Willard; Julie Churchman-Burns, Frank Rushton; Alice Clark, Grant; Elvira Soto-Mendez, Harmon; Sue Mays, Hazel Grove; Mary A. Smith, John F. Kennedy; Deborah May, John Fiske; Mary Kathi Stump, Lindbergh; Manisha Patel, Lowell/Morse Early Childhood Center; Denise Morris, ME Pearson; Denise Northern, Mark Twain; Cindy Stockwell, McKinley; Trisha Sueppel, New Chelsea; Destiny Lorance, New Stanley; Julie Brumet, Noble Prentis; Dawn Schwartz, Northwest; Sally Stewart, Quindaro; Rick Crockett, Rosedale; MaryAnn Van Dine, Silver City; Karen Jaime, Stony Point North; Marli Brandt, Stony Point South; Gene Fite, Sumner Academy; Barbara Novak, T.A. Edison; Mary Ann Sadler, W.A. White; James Estes, Jr.,Washington; Nancy Wolf, Welborn; Marie Watson, West; Judy Sieve, White Church; Jason Holler, Whittier; and Paula Nickum, Wyandotte.