Ten Sonoma County educators are in the running to become the California League of High Schools Educator of the Year.
The teachers will be celebrated at a dinner at Villa Chanticleer in Healdsburg Dec. 16. The winner of the Region 1 competition will be announced at the dinner.
That educator will move on to the California-wide dinner in Sacramento in February.
This year’s honorees are:
Jo Thinnes | Casa Grande High School |
John Quintrell | Montgomery High School |
Stephanie Moore | Elsie Allen High School |
Joseph DiOrio | Healdsburg High School |
Willie Swindle | Santa Rosa High School |
Mary Kay Pedersen | Maria Carrillo High School |
Kristi Erickson | Piner High School |
Amy Cortese | Windsor High School |
Deborah Fitch | Petaluma High School |
Jay Goldberg | Analy High School |
Last year’s Region 1 honoree, Simone Spearman of Piner High, went on to win Educator of the Year for California. To read more about that award, click here:
http://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/13813/piners-spearman-named-educator-of-the-year/