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IWLA 2023 Award & Grant Recipients
2023 IWLA Educator of the Year Recipients
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Tammy Simms and Jae Dwyer |
2023 Michael Oates "Teacher of Promise" Recipient
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| Emily Ross |
2023 IWLA Distinguished Service Recipient
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Grant-Harding Middle School Des Moines Cultural Night
Hudson Community High School Classroom readers and a subscription for an online resource
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2023 Best of Iowa Presentation
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| Rebekah Hamblin |
Past Recipients of IWLA Awards and Honors
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Year |
Educator of the Year |
Distinguished Service |
Teacher of Promise |
Friend of IWLA |
| 2022 |
Johanys Alvarez Melina Mena-David |
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Jorge Luis Santiago, Jr. Tye Nylus |
Linda Fandel |
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2020 2021 |
Laura Catherine Carruthers-Green Sheila Piasecki |
Candace Sherwood Tammy Getting |
NA | Jim Stick |
| 2019 |
Dr. Pamela Wesely Jason Noble |
Dr. Linda Quinn-Allen | Grace Winter | Stefanie Wager |
| 2018 | Craig Klein Dexemple | Joan Pace Beth Vander Wilt |
Katelyn Pletcher Karina Suarez Luna |
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| 2017 | Meg Fandel Kim Huegerich |
Kerisa Baedke |
Elizabeth Schupp Monica Martinez |
Sandra Dop |
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2016 |
Stacy Amling Christine McCormick |
Taylor Thenhaus Emily Wallace |
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2015 |
Kate Falvey |
Larry Pace |
Robert Benesh Loni O’Grady |
Marcia Powell Beatrice Houston |
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2014 |
Carrie Morris Amy Murphy |
Susan Sandholm Petersen Mary Stimmel |
Ashley Kielty Amanda Kerper |
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2013 |
Keith Bonnstetter |
Catherine Keech Sarah Nelson |
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2012 |
Marianne Sandberg |
Wade Petersen |
Jose Garcia Kalifornia Grey Lindsey Wenner |
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2011 |
Regina Schantz Julie Wilhelm |
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2010 |
Jim Gerrans |
Marcia Rosenbusch |
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2009 |
Candace Sherwood Jean-Pierre Taoutel |
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Julio Rodríguez |
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2008 |
Lisa Sobotka Anne Lair |
Cathy Stone |
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2007 |
Coralie Turner Elizabeth Zwanziger Page Sara Blanco |
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2006 |
Dawn Bratsch-Prince Anna Marasco |
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2005 |
Lindsey Rice Cornwell Susan Sandholm Petersen Beth VanderWilt Terri Gebel |
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2004 |
Catherine (Kay) Wells Patricia Calkins Dawn Frye |
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2003 |
Wade Petersen Linda Quinn Allen |
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2002 |
Steve A. Christianson Tammy Dunn |
Catherine (Kay) Wells |
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2001 |
Shelly Power Bill Hemmes Tatiana Spektor |
Eunice Van Tuyl |
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2000 |
Moira McCluney Jere Brands |
James E. Becker |
If you see errors in this list, please contact IWLA!
Recipients of the Educator of the Year Award prior to 2000:
Jim Becker, Lydia Ruiz, Marcia Rosenbusch, Nile Vernon, Anne Volkman, Donna Grunstad, James Graham, Sandy Nyhus, Shelly Winters, Magdalena Mujica-Voy, Michael Oates, Barbara Maitland, Toni Baugher, Walter Chatfield, Janine Shelley, Barbara Peterson, Dedi Walker, Rosemarie VanDyk, Patricia Westphal, Janet Brown Lowe, Evelyn Bress, Joan Pace, Joan Lewis, Jacques Dubois, Lieselotte Ritter, Jane Klaver, Linda Wilson, Ana Peck, Cheryl Voelliger, Connie Smith, Tom Dougless, Jurgen Koppensteiner, Russ Freerking, Alicia Van Bergen, Denise Murray, Nelle Hutter, Heidi Galer, Jeanette Borich, Sally Clute, Donna Van Bodegraven, Eunice Van Tuyl, Holly Kaptain, Kerisa Baedke, Mercia Foster, Paris Sangrene, Trish Colburn, Larry Pace, Joye Lore-Larson, Lowell Hoeft, Hildegard (Pochy) Morales
