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2020 Golden Apple Award teachers

Ten Catholic school teachers from across the Archdiocese of Washington are receiving 2020 Golden Apple Awards for teaching excellence and dedication to Catholic education.

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Witnessing joy of her second graders receiving the sacraments inspires Golden Apple teacher

As the second grade teacher at St. Raphael School in Rockville, Maryland, Kasey Trees loves preparing her students to receive the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist....

Jun 26, 2020

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Golden Apple Award recipient finds joy in expanding her classroom for her students

In Kelly Sweet’s kindergarten class at St. Mary’s School in Rockville, Maryland, she goes above and beyond the four walls of her classroom to expand the learning environment for...

Jun 29, 2020

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Golden Apple Award winner sees career in Catholic schools as God’s plan for her life

For Germania Rebaudengo, St. Bartholomew Catholic Church and School in Bethesda, Maryland, is like a home to her, she said. She and her husband, Alessandro, were married at the...

Jun 26, 2020

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For St. Bernadette’s Golden Apple teacher, pandemic shutdown offered its own lessons

Looking back on the 2019-20 school year’s final quarter, Margaret Rodriguez, a fifth grade language arts and homeroom teacher at St. Bernadette School in Silver Spring, Maryland,...

Jun 29, 2020

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Golden Apple winner says Catholic education is ‘what I have been called to do’

For nearly 30 years, Susan Scott has taught in Catholic schools. A middle school math and religion teacher at Cardinal Hickey Academy in Owings, Maryland, for the past six years,...

Jun 30, 2020

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Sacred Heart teacher encourages students at his bilingual school to help make the world a better place

For Greg Landrigan, the greatest blessing of teaching at Sacred Heart School in Washington, D.C., which offers an innovative bilingual education program in Spanish and English, is...

Jul 2, 2020

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‘Catholic school is what I grew up with and love,’ says Golden Apple winner

For Tricia Hancock, a seventh-grade math and reading teacher at Little Flower School in Great Mills, Maryland, the best part of her job is what she calls “the aha moment.” “I love...

Jul 1, 2020

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Harry Rissetto came home to teach at Gonzaga College High School and share the lessons he learned there

For Harry Rissetto, the lessons he learned in the classroom and by serving others as a student at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., continue to shape his work as...

Jul 1, 2020

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Golden Apple Award teacher from St. Mary’s Ryken High School teaches the truths of the Catholic faith

For the past 10 years, Luke Young, a theology teacher at St. Mary’s Ryken High School in Leonardtown, Maryland, has engaged his students in discussion and dialogue to help them...

Jun 30, 2020

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For Jill Rison of St. Mary’s School in Bryantown, Teacher Appreciation Week included a Golden Apple Award

Teacher Appreciation Week during the first week of May took on a special meaning this year for Jill Rison, an instructional specialist and art and math teacher at St. Mary’s...

Jul 2, 2020