2008 Golden Apple
Major Sponsors

Associated Bank
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Humana Inc.
Imperial Supplies LLC
Schneider National Foundation
Schreiber Foods, Inc.
Shopko Stores, Inc.
UnitedHealthcare, A UnitedHealth Group Company
WLUK Fox 11

The 2008 Golden Apple Awards Dinner Program will be Wednesday, April 16, at the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center with the program televised live on FOX 11 from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Mark your calendars. 

Purchase tables and tickets for the event individually, or receive tickets as part of your Partners in Education membership package, with proceeds used to fund PIE programming.

To get tickets to the event, or for more information about how to get involved, call Nancy Schopf, vice-president education & leadership, at 920-437-8704 or e-mail schopf@titletown.org.

The purpose of the Golden Apple Awards Program is to improve community awareness of the quality of education in the Greater Green Bay Area by recognizing high standards of professionalism, leadership, and innovation in teaching.  The process starts in October when businesspeople visit all of the area schools to present a token of appreciation to each of the K-12 educators.  In the next phase of the process, community people nominate area educators (individuals or teams of educators).  Nominated educators elect to enter the selection process by submitting an application.

Seven recipients are selected annually through a multi-level screening of anonymous applications and personal interviews.  Selection criteria is based on the National Board of Professional Teaching standards, which has identified essential knowledge, skills, and dispositions expected of experienced, quality teachers.  Commitment to student learning, assessment of and use of assessment tools to advance student progress, and efforts to stimulate student interest in learning are focused on during the selection process.  Teachers of Distinction are selected in the first round of the anonymous process.  From the Teachers of Distinction, another group of applicants are selected for personal interviews.  Through the interview phase, seven recipients (individuals or teams of educators) are selected to be honored during the televised Golden Apple Awards Program, awarded $2,000, and a lifelong membership in the Golden Apple Academy.