Other Area Crystal Apple Award Winners

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021 -- 10:04 AM

(WDLB) The Marshfield Area Chamber of Commerce & Industry has announced three of its four Crystal Apple Award winners for 2021.

According to WDLB, the announcements were made in the teachers’ classrooms yesterday, with another one coming tomorrow.  Among this year’s winners is the first teacher from St. Joseph's in Stratford to receive the award, Kristie Bangart.

Another area school, which is new to the Crystal Apple program, will be honoring its inaugural winner this year.  Randi Stanley of Neillsville High School was selected.  You can find more here.

After claiming two of the four Crystal Apple awards a year ago, the Pittsville School District has another winner this year. She is first-grade teacher Jodi Moore of Pittsville Elementary.

The Crystal Apple winners are among two dozen area "Teachers of Distinction" honored each year by the Marshfield Chamber's Education Foundation. They will all be honored at a banquet May 5 at Hotel Marshfield. 

Some other local Teachers of Distinction for 2021 include Taylor Varsho and Kathleen Mahoney of Marshfield High School, Danielle Wilke and Michele DeCandia from Marshfield Middle School, Ruth Fleischmann of Columbus Catholic High School, Brooke Altman of Nasonville Elementary, Ann Pankratz and Jennifer Wilke of Spencer, Ryan Westaby of Granton, Julie Plautz and Brad Helsten of Greenwood, Daisy Werner of Neillsville, and Alyssa Anderson of Pittsville.

The Marshfield Chamber received a record 1,313 nominations for 345 different teachers. Qualifying nominees were placed on a ballot and teachers voted on their top candidate at each of the schools.

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