Alumni recipients of the Minnesota Teacher of
the Year Award
We prepare the best.
 We
have another Milken
National Educator Award winner!
Sharon Cormany Ornelas, CEHD professional practice
school coordinator and alumna (M.Ed. ’00, second languages
and cultures), was honored Thursday at her school, Patrick
Henry High School. The Milken Award provides public
recognition and an unrestricted financial award of $25,000
to teachers, principals, and specialists who are furthering
excellence in education. Read more at
Minneapolis Teacher Surprised With National Honor,
WCCO.com. In 2003, Natalie Rasmussen, Ph.D.
(Ph.D., '06, education, curriculum and instruction) also
won an Milken Educator Award. At that time she was a
teacher and department chair at North Community High
School, Minneapolis, Minn. The Minnesota Teacher of the Year Award, sponsored by Education
Minnesota, the teachers’ union, began in 1964. Since that time, 40
percent of those teachers honored have done graduate work or
received undergraduate and/or graduate degrees from the College of
Education and Human Development, Twin Cities. They are:
- Michael Smart,
2007, Japanese teacher at Armstrong High School in Plymouth
- Lee-Ann Stephens, 2006, English and
language arts teacher in St. Louis Park
- Glen Sorenson, 2005, anatomy and
physiology teacher in Proctor
- Ellen Delaney, 1999, math teacher in
North St. Paul
- Rita Wigfield, 1992, fifth grade teacher
in Hopkins
- Cathy Nelson, 1990, social studies
teacher in Fridley
- Maureen Sanger, 1988, music teacher in
Roseville
- Judy McCleary, 1986, family and consumer
science teacher in Roseville
- Cecilia Critchely, 1980, third-fourth
grade teacher in Mounds View
- Charles Funk, 1979, agriculture teacher
in Motley
- George Gillespie; 1978, English,
journalism, and humanities teacher in Clouquet
- Denneth Dvergsten, 1975, biology teacher
in Roseville
- Robert Heyer, 1974, physical science
teacher in Mounds View
- Thomas Stoltman; 1973, radio, TV, and
speech teacher in Winona
- Madonna Dahl, 1972, third grade teacher
in Bloomington
- Theodore Molitor, 1969, chemistry
teacher in Roseville
- Gloria Kortmeyer, 1967, choir teacher in Owatanna
- Robert Arnold, 1965, science teacher in
Richfield
August 2007
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