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The Council of Chief State Officers and Scholastic Inc.
announce the following finalists for the 2006 National Teacher of
the Year Award.
Check
back April 24, 2006 for the announcement of the National Teacher
of the Year 2006-2007!
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Samuel
R. Bennett is a fifth grade teacher at Garner Elementary School
in Winter Haven, Florida. Bennett, who has taught a total of
19 years, has been an educator at Garner, a school of 569 students,
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Ronald
W. Poplau is a community service teacher (grades 11-12) at Shawnee
Mission Northwest High School in Shawnee, Kansas. Poplau has
taught for 43 years, 36 at Northwest which has 1,850 students
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Kimberly
Oliver is a kindergarten teacher at Broad Acres Elementary School
in Silver Spring, Maryland. Oliver has taught for six years,
all at Broad Acres which has 520 students.
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Susan Barnard
is a language arts teacher (grades 9-12) at CHOICE Alternative
High School in Shelton, Washington. Barnard has taught at this
school of 230 students for 10 of her 12 years in the education
profession.
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