The El Dorado Education Foundation (EDEF) is pleased to announce each school’s finalists, semifinalists, and nominees for the 23rd Teacher Excellence Awards, sponsored by Murphy USA. It is gratifying to see how many nominations were received. The El Dorado School District is privileged with top-notch educators at every level and school. For that, the foundation is most appreciative. EDEF is proud of all. Congratulations and thank you!
The finalists: Elementary School: Megan Koonce, Hugh Goodwin; Cristal Childress, Northwest; and Alie Shepherd; Yocum. Middle/Junior High School: Lisa Hooks, Barton; Alexis Simmons-King, Barton; and Bailey Camacho, Barton. High School: Aprile Richardson, El Dorado High School (EHS); Jackie Phillips, EHS; and Ashlee Curtis, EHS. The semifinalists: Elementary School: Megan Koonce, Hugh Goodwin; Cristal Childress, Northwest; and Alie Shepherd, Yocum. Middle/Junior High School: Melissa Upchurch, Washington; Evelyn Escamilla, Washington; Ashley Johnson, Washington; Lisa Hooks, Barton; Alexis Simmons-King, Barton; and Bailey Camacho, Barton. High School: LaPorsha Carter, EHS; Shelly Childers, EHS; Aprile Richardson, EHS; Molly Rottman, EHS; Jackie Phillips, EHS; and Ashlee Curtis, EHS.
The nominees: Hugh Goodwin: Kimberly Alexander, Billy Blackburn, Carmen Clark, Joan Cunningham, Margaret Cupp, Veronica Curley, Kristen Davis, Olivia Fitzgerald, Brigitte Haney, Hannah Hodge, Missy Inman, Megan Koonce, Cristina Lee, Amy Lester, Allison Lockwood, Michelle Lyons, Angela Margis, Brittany Mullenax, Brooklyn Nesbitt, Lara Robbins, Chianti Roberson, and Claudia Stevenson.
Northwest: Darla Bailey, Julie Baker, Hannah Brockwell, Cristal Childress, Christy Cranford, Stacey Fairris, Amy Fulco, Skylee Hogan, Cara Jobe, Aime Johnson, Mandy Kingery, Melanie Martin, Janna Moree, Holly Morgan, Brooklyn Sanchez, Marianna Sartain, Linda Trostle, Cindy Walton, Amy Welch, and Crystal Wells.
Yocum: Zach Anders, Dana Ayres, Leanne Barnett, Lauren Dailey, Jamie Fife, Kamara George, Chrystal Gilkey, Makayla Green, Stacy Gulick, Leia Hickmott, Haley Holeman, Jonathan Holland, Kim Ibert, Melissa Laird, Felicie Lamoreux, Sandy McDill, Shemekia Morgan, Lacey Miller, Imani Moore, Taylor Nelson, Casey Orr, Brittney Outlaw, Daniela Rivas, Gregory Roberson, Britni Robinson, Alie Shepherd, Brooke Sneed, Amber Welch, and Timmy Williams.
Washington: Brinkley Ashcraft, Alyssa Avant, Breanna Braswell, Mydeana Bridges, Courtney Canady, Jesse Edge, Evelyn Escamilla, Chris Ezell, Rachael Gavin, Deborah Guevara, Shane Hemme, Sonya Hicks, Ashley Johnson, Ethan Kelton, Andrew McDaniel, Alexander Michaels, Sarika Mohandas, Haley Moore, Corin Rainey, Sheila Russell, Chris Rynders, Shamonne Session, Dorinda Stephens, Katie Taylor, Christina Turner, Melissa Upchurch, Willow Waggoner, Tara Watts, and Lori Wilcox.
Barton: Jeremy Atwell, Natalie Bolick, Bailey Camacho, Jamie Cupples, Hannah Davis, Derek Easter, Whitney Frazier, Misty Freeman, Jessica Glass, Calum Graham, Samantha Guzman, Jonathan Hetrick, Jonathan Hicks, Mary Hodnett, Tyler Hodnett, Lisa Hooks, Heather Jennings, Carson Keith, Robert Kersh, Joshua Kingery, Adrian Knapper, Billy Major, Emily Manning, Tammy McCloy, Breanna McKnight, Hayden Nooner, Amber Reynolds, Danielle Scott, Alexis Simmons-King, and Hannah Traylor.
EHS: Carrie Adams, Carrie Allender, Morgan Atkins, Holly Barnhill, Pate Bauldree, Alyssa Bean, Charlie Blair, Kris Borosvskis, Caroline Callaway, Madison Campbell, LaPorsha Carter, Shelly Childers, Joseph Clark, Ava Collopy, Heather Craig, Lauren Cross, Ashlee Curtis, DeAnthony Curtis, Elcy Easter, Shanice Easter, Kim Evans, Jessica Freeman, Kevia Gill, Isael Gonzalez, Katy Gorden, Katie Harwell, Sarah Hawkins, Candi Jennings, Steven Jones, Joshua Keil, Natalye Leake, Darryl Lewis, Jamie Lowe, Alexandra Marlin, Neville Matthews, Bobbie McClellan, Jennifer McGehee, Bill Meyer, Alexander Michaels, Andy Newman, Jennifer Nutt, Gregory Oden, Angie Parker, Jackie Phillips, Jimmy Porter, Sheri Rankin, Tim Ray, Dana Reep, Aprile Richardson, Savannah Rogers, Molly Rottman, Donnie Tank, Abbey Thomas, Hannah Thomas, Ginger Welch, David Weser, Grace Wolfe, and Lauren Yaksic.