Fifty-eight teachers at high schools in the Philadelphia School District will be honored Tuesday by the Lindback Foundation.
The teachers – one from each district high school – will be presented the Distinguished Teaching Award created by the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation on Tuesday afternoon at the Prince Theater in Center City. Each teacher will receive $3,500 from the foundation.
The honorees were nominated by their colleagues and students, and endorsed by their principals for the prestigious award, which was bestowed annually since 2008.
Schools Superintendent Dr. William R. Hite, School Reform Commission Chairwoman Marjorie G. Neff, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and Lindback Foundation Trustees Sheldon M. Bonovitz, David E. Loder and Reginald J. Middleton will attend the presentation.
The foundation recently honored seven principals at district schools.
The following teachers will receive the award (schools in alphabetical order):
A. Philip Randolph Career and Technical High School
Brian McCracken
Abraham Lincoln High School
Erica Swift
Academy at Palumbo
Mary Wang
Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush
Sunny Bavaro
Benjamin Franklin High School
Jennifer Barry
Building 21
Thomas Emerson
Central High School
Kenneth Hung
Constitution High School
George Davis Greene
Frankford High School
Katherine Cappetta
Franklin Learning Center
Michelle Frank
George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science
Dr. Amitabha Basu
George Washington High School
Jeanne Carroll
Girard Academic Music Program
Jared Ruddick
High School of the Future
Brett Zaba
Hill-Freedman High School
Tara Ann Carter
Horace H. Furness High School
Valerie Nelsen
John Bartram High School
Robert Thomas
Jules E. Mastbaum Technical High School
Angelo Forgione
Julia R. Masterman High School
Elizabeth Taylor
Kensington High School for the Creative and Performing Arts
Joseph Parker
Kensington Health Sciences Academy
Luci Bower
Kensington International School of Business, Finance & Entrepreneurship
Catherine Cloak
Kensington Urban Education Academy
Mona Bradwell
Lankenau High School
Herbert Scoll
Martin Luther King High School
Valarie Richardson
Motivation High School
Amish Shah
Murrell Dobbins Career and Technical Education High School
John McGlaughlin
Northeast High School
Elana Friedman-Lope
Overbrook High School
Joanna Betts
Parkway Center City High School
Leo Mullen
Parkway Northwest High School
Amanda McCaw
Parkway West High School
Arlene Capers
Paul Robeson High School for Human Services
Matthew Beyerle
Penn Treaty High School
Lorraine Fortino
Pennypack House School
Hassania Moody
Philadelphia High School for Girls
Louis Austin
Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Services Center
Andrew LeCompte
Philadelphia Learning Academy North
Rosalind Williams
Philadelphia Learning Academy South
Winnie Kwan
Philadelphia Military Academy
Daniel McMonagle
Philadelphia Virtual Academy
Dean Brad Layman
Roxborough High School
Kate Verica
Samuel S. Fels High School
Edward Mullen
Science Leadership Academy
Douglas Herman
Science Leadership Academy at Beeber
Sarah Landman
South Philadelphia High School
Denise Powell
Strawberry Mansion High School
Keith Westbrook
Swenson Arts and Technology High School
Julie Ann Woodlin
The Linc
Justin Deutsch
The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts
Jennifer Kramny
The U School
Charles McGeehan
The Workshop School
Katrina Clark
Thomas Alva Edison High School
Christie Parfitt
Walter Biddle Saul High School of Agricultural Science
Joseph Mbura
West Philadelphia High School
Sharlynne Cloud
Widener Memorial School
Maria Rogers
William L. Sayre High School
Ebony Lynn Hollingsworth
William W. Bodine High School for International Affairs
Melanie Keiper