Kansas Master Teacher Previous Winners
Kansas Master Teachers
2022 Kansas Master Teachers
- Andy Battenfield (Emporia)
- Melanie Hammond (Salina)
- Karen Stohlmann Henderson (Blue Valley)
- Sarah M. Hoff (Dodge City)
- Gina Johnson (Hays)
- Bryan Scruggs (Geary County)
- Barbara Tholen (Lawrence)
2021 Recognition of Kansas Teachers
Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Kansas Master Teacher program recognized all educators of Kansas in 2021.
2020 Kansas Master Teachers
- Hillary Barscewski (Andover)
- Holly Bright (El Dorado)
- Justin Heeke (Dodge City)
- Erica Huggard (Emporia)
- Eunice Izazaga (Wichita)
- Vickie Marcozzi (Salina)
- Kathy Wagoner (Hays)
2018 Kansas Master Teachers
- Constance Allmond (El Dorado)
- Deanna K. Burton (Manhattan-Ogden)
- Abby Cornelius (Blue Valley)
- Todd Flory (Andover)
- Chitra Harris (Wichita)
- Matthew Irby (Emporia)
- Kimberly S. Schneweis (Hays)
2017 Kansas Master Teachers
- John Butcher (Blue Valley)
- Melinda Eitel (Salina)
- Joan Hayden (Geary County)
- Jennifer Hendrix (Dodge City)
- Kimberly Hett (Andover)
- Brandy Lane (Topeka)
- Laura Schwinn (Emporia)
2016 Kansas Master Teachers
- Jessica Butte (Hays)
- Nikki Chamberlain (Salina)
- Adriane Falco (Blue Valley)
- Keri Lauxman (Lawrence)
- L. Raymond Linville (Andover)
- Jenny Wilcox (Auburn-Washburn)
- Laura Woolfolk (Dodge City)
2015 Kansas Master Teachers
- Carmen Cantrell (Shawnee Mission)
- Barbara Clark (Manhattan-Ogden)
- Kori E. Green (El Dorado)
- Leslie McAfee (Piper)
- Bill McFarland (Auburn-Washburn)
- Reed Uthe (Blue Valley)
- Ginger Whiteside Steck (Andover)
2014 Kansas Master Teachers
- Bonnie Austin (Dodge City)
- John V. Bode (Lawrence)
- Lori Gunzelman (Andover)
- Signe Truelove (Emporia)
- Carla Varner (El Dorado)
- Kathleen Wilhite (Olathe)
- Maria Worthington (Blue Valley)
2013 Kansas Master Teachers
- Juliann Bliese (Olathe)
- Michelle Lynn Bogner (Dodge City)
- Kathleen Bowen (Lawrence)
- Kacie Evans (Morris County)
- Kelley Norman (Topeka)
- Michele Palmgren (Salina)
- Tara Walrod (Blue Valley)
2012 Kansas Master Teachers
- Shelley Aistrup (Manhattan-Ogden)
- Cindy Ehrstein (Andover)
- Sandra Gonsher (Blue Valley)
- Kendra Metz (Lawrence)
- Katrina Paradis (Salina)
- Jodi Testa (Junction City)
- Marc Woofter (Dodge City)
2011 Kansas Master Teachers
- Sonda Copeland (Manhattan-Ogden)
- Teresa Disberger (Morris County)**
- Martha Hadsall (Anthony-Harper)
- Rick Hildebrand (Barnes-Hanover-Linn)
- Nancy Pence (Blue Valley)
- Janice Romeiser (Emporia)**
- Marcia Troutfetter (Salina)
2010 Kansas Master Teachers
- Eleanor Browning (Emporia)
- Kathy Doussa (Dodge City)**
- Michael Dunlap (Blue Valley)
- Lou Ann Getz (Manhattan-Ogden)
- Sheila Lewis (Shawnee Heights)
- Andrea Sayler-Siefkes (St. John/Hudson)**
- Kassie Shook (Lawrence)
- Scott Irwin, Professor, Emporia State University*
2009 Kansas Master Teachers
- Kenneth J. Bingman (Blue Valley)**
- Christy Boerner (Wamego)
- Barbara Cole (Shawnee Heights)
- Beverly Furlong (Gardner Edgerton)
- Jeline Harclerode (Emporia)
- Barbara McCalla (Augusta)
- Sarah Meadows (Topeka)**
2008 Kansas Master Teachers
- Alice Bertels (Auburn Washburn)
- Lisa Colwell (Hays)
- Lori Goodson (Wamego)
- Ronda Hassig (Blue Valley)
- Deborah Nauerth (Manhattan)**
- Shannon Ralph (Dodge City)**
- Kenna Reeves (Emporia State University)
2007 Kansas Master Teachers
- Rob Davis (Blue Valley)**
- Robin Dixon (Auburn Washburn)
- Shelley Faerber (Manhattan)
- Diane Ladenburger (Pratt)
- Marilyn McComber (Emporia)**
- Angela Miller (Junction City)
- Elouise Miller (Hay)
- Tes Mehring, Dean, Emporia State University*
2006 Kansas Master Teachers
- Jo Ellen Dambro (Emporia)
- Karla Ewing (Pratt)
- Elaine Fasulo (Olathe)
- Sherry Hutchcraft (Dodge City)
- Vicki O'Neal (Baxter Springs)
- Bob Peterson (Butler Community College)**
- Marilyn Vaughan (Blue Valley)**
- Kay Schallenkamp, President, Emporia State University*
2005 Kansas Master Teachers
- Ken Garwick (Manhattan)
- Sandy Hardesty (Auburn Washburn)
- Connie Neneman (Dodge City)**
- Kathryn Reschke (Olathe)
- Kimberly Thomas (Wichita)
- Mary Van Dyke (Atchison)
- Larry Wayland (Blue Valley)**
2004 Kansas Master Teachers
- Mary Elizabeth Baker (Andover)
- Luana (Lu) Bitter (Pratt)
- Patricia Grzenda (Lawrence)
- Nicki Hancock (Olathe East)
- Greg Mittman (Valley Center)**
- Devra Parker (Medicine Lodge)**
- Patricia (Trish) Weidert (Emporia)
- William Samuelson, Professor, Emporia State University*
2003 Kansas Master Teachers
- Tina Buck (Medicine Lodge)**
- Matt Copeland (Auburn Washburn)
- Connie Ferree (Emporia)
- Connie Healy (Blue Valley)**
- Pamela Kilgariff (Pratt)
- Barbara Tims (Pittsburg)
- Carol Woydziak (Dodge City)
2002 Kansas Master Teachers
- Bev Bertolone (Blue Valley)
- Barbara Fowler (Emporia)
- Sue Givens (Pratt)**
- Christine Herald (Manhattan)
- Dee A. Moxley (Andover)
- Jan Prather (El Dorado)
- Alexander Specht (Osawatomie)**
2001 Kansas Master Teachers
- Cathy Esquibel (Dodge City)**
- Jeanne Evans (El Dorado)
- Betty Lavery (Stilwell)**
- Leona Madden (Hays)
- Margaret McClatchey (Overland Park)
- Rosemary A. Riordan (Lenexa)
- Jane Sak (Overland Park)
- Jerry Long (Associate Dean, ESU)*
2000 Kansas Master Teachers
- Kay Parks Bushman Haas (Ottawa)
- Tracy Jo Kerth (Overland Park)**
- Michael R. Schainost (Osawatomie)**
- Roberta (Robbie) Thomas (Andover)
- Robert James Tindel (Pittsburg)
- Deborah B. Wertin (Overland Park)
- Goldie Wood (Dodge City)
1999 Kansas Master Teachers
- Michelle DiLisio (Chanute)**
- Mary Hemphill (Manhattan-Ogden)
- Judy Humburg (Andover)**
- Mary Porterfield (Goodland)
- Linda Stelzer (Pratt)
- Phillip Theis (Butler County Community College)
- Curt Vajnar (Hays)
- Andy Tompkins (Topeka)*
1998 Kansas Master Teachers
- Brian “Chip” Anderson (Lawrence)
- Janeen Brown (Wakeeney)
- Candy Birch (Olathe)
- Elizabeth Cronemeyer (Tonganoxie)
- Floyd “Stan” Standridge (Salina)
- Shirley Stein (Ulysses)
- Carol Strickland (Emporia)
1997 Kansas Master Teachers
- Lisa Artman Bietau (Manhattan)
- JoLene Rae Bloom (Seneca)
- Patricia Gnau (Blue Valley)
- Mike Harvey (Pratt)
- Darla J. Mallein (Emporia)
- Renita Ubel (Ottawa)
- Randall J. Warner (Olathe)
- Dr. Jack D. Skillett (Emporia State University)
1996 Kansas Master Teachers
- Doyle D. Barnes (Manhattan)
- Margaret Coggins (Lawrence)
- Catherine Ecroyd (Ottawa)
- Jacquelyn Faye Feist (Dodge City)
- Millie P. Moye (Salina)
- Janice Reutter (Medicine Lodge)
- Nancy Robohn (Emporia)
1995 Kansas Master Teachers
- Cathy Colborn (Medicine Lodge)
- Joseph P. Glotzbach (Council Grove)
- John B. Harclerode (Emporia)
- Diana E. Harris (Pratt)
- Patrick R. Lamb (Manhattan)
- Tom Schwartz (Abilene)
- Jo Ann Schuette (Wichita)
1994 Kansas Master Teachers
- Garold R. Billionis (Fort Scott)
- Anne Nettleton (Salina)
- Diane Prell (Derby)
- Myron E. Schwinn (Manhattan)
- Kathryn E. Taylor (Emporia)
- Connie J. Viebrock (Olathe)
- Norma Bynum West (Dwight)
- Dr. Robert Glennen, President, Emporia State University
1993 Kansas Master Teachers
- Mickey L. Bogart (Manhattan)
- Carol J. Brandert (Salina)
- Mary Alice Gordon (Lawrence)
- Kathy Ann Ramsour (Dodge City)
- William M. Scott (Wakeeney)
- Alice M. Shaffer (Overland Park)
- Glenda S. Watkins (Paola)
- Dr. Daryl Berry, Emporia State University
1992 Kansas Master Teachers
- Beth Bergsten (Junction City)
- Ernest L. Brown (Wakeeney)
- Irma Jean Fallon (Manhattan)
- Diane Low (Lawrence)
- Ethel Marie Peterson (Dodge City)
- Alana Kay Sewell (Pratt)
- Joyce Ann Sinn (Fort Scott)
1991 Kansas Master Teachers
- Deena L. Horst (Salina)
- Kenneth R. Kennedy (Pratt)
- Sherryl L. Longhofer (Auburn-Washburn)
- Susan F. McKinney (Emporia)
- Kenneth R. Stith (Dodge City)
- Valarie S. Tims (Pittsburg)
- Helen A. Wagner (El Dorado)
1990 Kansas Master Teachers
- Dr. Thomas Christie (Lawrence)
- Gretchen Davis (Overland Park)
- Dr. E. Sutton Flynt (Pittsburg State University)
- James Gardner (El Dorado)
- Ralph E. Mock (Council Grove)
- Allen K. Scheer (Westmoreland)
- Beverliann Wolf (Derby)
1989 Kansas Master Teachers
- Tanya Channell (Hays)
- Max Ferguson (Medicine Lodge)
- Lois Schweitzer Gray (Pratt)
- Carolyn Koch (Emporia)
- Ada Ligia R. Paquette (Junction City)
- Mary Anne Trickle (Salina)
- Gary Wilkerson (Derby)
- Dr. Darrell Wood (Emporia State University)
1988 Kansas Master Teachers
- Carol S. Adams (Manhattan)
- Donald G. Buhler (Pratt)
- Robert Hottman (Anthony)
- Carolyn Clevenger Kuhn (Emporia)
- Michael S. Rush (Osawatomie)
- Bonnie Weingart (Fort Riley)
- Martha Zakrzewski (Hays)
1987 Kansas Master Teachers
- Roger D. Brannan (Manhattan)
- Jackie Engel (McPherson)
- Dr. Nick Henry (Pittsburg State University)
- Dr. Eloise Beth Lynch (Salina)
- Marie Peterson (Oakley)
- Joyce Rucker (Pratt)
- Dr. Sandra J. Terril (Salina)
- Dr. John Webb (Emporia State University)
1986 Kansas Master Teachers
- Jill Burk (Manhattan)
- Richard G. Dawson (Kansas City)
- Frank B. Evans (Dodge City)
- Dr. Jim Gill (Stilwell)
- Harry Heckethorn (McPherson)
- Sally Six Hersh (Lawrence)
- Helen Owens (Derby)
- Dr. Fred Markowitz (Emporia State University)
1985 Kansas Master Teachers
- Bob Anderson (Manhattan)
- Ken Carothers (Wellington)
- Thomas Fowler (Emporia)
- Charlotte McDonald (Olathe)
- Lana Scrimsher Oleen (Manhattan)
- Barbara Shinkle (Pratt)
- Sharon Willis (McPherson)
- Dr. John E. King (Emporia State University)
1984 Kansas Master Teachers
- Robert Coffman (Chase)
- Frances Lou Disney (Great Bend)
- Stephen R. Germes (Dodge City)
- Thomas Hedges (Pittsburg)
- Don L. Mason (Kingman)
- Dottie McCrossen (Ottawa)
- Joan Spiker (Manhattan)
- Dr. John Visser (Emporia State University)
1983 Kansas Master Teachers
- Catherine Ann Brown (Emporia)
- Elaine Fowler Bryant (Pittsburg)
- Betty Holderread (Newton)
- Lois McClure (Kingman)
- Barry L. Schartz (Kingman)
- Sally Shipley (Kansas City, MO)
- Doris Velen (Manhattan)
1982 Kansas Master Teachers
- Dorothy Arensman (Dodge City)
- Frances Kohrs (Fort Scott)
- Bill Saunders (Garden City)
- Marjory Pease Sharp (Pittsburg)
- Patricia Tippin (Manhattan)
- Kenneth Trickle, Jr. (Salina)
- Elizabeth Voorhees (Emporia)
1981 Kansas Master Teachers
- Mary Chase (Andover)
- Mary Lou Davis (Dodge City)
- Marguerite Flick (Winfield)
- Don Miller (Fort Scott)
- Deloris Jean Osger (Eureka)
- Chester Peckover (Buhler)
- Byron Smith (Anthony)
1980 Kansas Master Teachers
- Harold Balzer (Buhler)
- Raymond Goering (Salina)
- Lucille Luckey (Dodge City)
- Mary Remington (Pittsburg)
- Patricia Samuelson Bonds (Emporia)
- James R. Smith (Olathe)
- Paul Willis (Topeka)
1979 Kansas Master Teachers
- Gerald E. Barkley (Galena)
- Wendell Hodges (Anthony)
- Eleanor Kee (Coffeyville)
- Clifton McWaid (Kansas City)
- Loren E. Riblett Sr. (Wamego)
- Cynthia Schrader (Alta Vista)
- William Warner (Manhattan)
- Dr. Everett Rich (Emporia State University)
1978 Kansas Master Teachers
- Dennis L. Ary (Auburn-Washburn)
- Erma Lang Dow (Eureka)
- Harold Hardy (Pittsburg)
- Dr. Robert R. Noble (Pittsburg State University)
- Milton Senti (Pratt)
- Patricia J. Teel (Columbus)
- Eugene Wiltfong (Norton)
- Dr. A. Truman Hayes (Emporia State University)
1977 Kansas Master Teachers
- Jean Curl (Kansas City)
- Fred Deyoe (Dodge City)
- Joan Hanna (Winfield)
- Shirley Longfellow (El Dorado)
- Martha McReynolds (Burlington)
- Gene Russell (Galena)
- Dan Tewell (Pittsburg)
- Dr. William Edwards (Emporia State University)
1976 Kansas Master Teachers
- Charlotte Doyle (Manhattan)
- Harry Hart (Emporia)
- Glennis Lindsey (Hutchinson)
- Dr. James A. McCain (Kansas State University)
- Frances Raines (Winfield)
- Dr. Richard Roahen (Emporia State University)
- Darlene Theno (Basehor)
- Eleanor White (Dodge City)
1975 Kansas Master Teachers
- Rozella K. Cadwell Swisher (Kansas City)
- Betty Dutton (Alta Vista)
- Vernon Hastert (Ulysses)
- Paul Jewell (Kansas City)
- Marion Klema (Salina)
- Ernest Nelson (Pittsburg)
- Irma Teichgraeber (Chapman)
1974 Kansas Master Teachers
- Wanda Franzen (Emporia)
- Arlene Garrett (Hugoton)
- Ruben Grose (Hutchinson)
- Louis Hayward (Eureka)
- Clyde Johnson (Leavenworth)
- Esther Overman (Columbus)
- Norris Sayre (Ensign)
1973 Kansas Master Teachers
- Mildred Barber (Concordia)
- Dr. Elton W. Cline (Pittsburg State University)
- Marie Hieger (El Dorado)
- Anna Hurty (Hutchinson)
- Rachel Leist (Fort Scott)
- Allen L. Unruh (Ottawa)
- Marjorie Vieux (Atwood)
1972 Kansas Master Teachers
- Joseph L. Bournonville (Pittsburg)
- Robert Burnett (Colby)
- Gerald Goacher (Topeka)
- Carl A. James (Emporia)
- Catherine Johannsen (Kansas City)
- Dr. Margaret Parker (Pittsburg State University)
- Leona Velen (Manhattan)
- F. Floyd Herr (Kansas State Department of Education)
1971 Kansas Master Teachers
- Dr. Kenneth Anderson (University of Kansas)
- Earl Bevan (Pittsburg)
- Helen Case (El Dorado)
- Carl Clinesmith (Fort Scott)
- Herman Grundy (Kansas City)
- Betty Jackson (Colby)
- Margaret Jagger (Minneapolis)
- F. L. Schlagle (Kansas City)
1970 Kansas Master Teachers
- Ralph Dennis (Olathe)
- John England (Pittsburg)
- Gladys Kaump (Dodge City)
- Thomas Kelly (Hutchinson)
- Lois Patton (Great Bend)
- Albert Riedel (Hays)
- Mary Ellen Sissman (Eureka)
1969 Kansas Master Teachers
- Dr. Alex Daughtry (Emporia State University)
- Kelso Deer (Hoisington)
- Marguerite Hackney (Iola)
- Joe W. Ostenberg (McPherson)
- Theodore Palmquist (Turner)
- Maxine Sebelius (Northern Valley)
- Joy Wigginton (El Dorado)
- Lonnie Wood (Independence)
1968 Kansas Master Teachers
- Arley A. Bryant (Concordia)
- Lottie Carver (Mulvane)
- Alice Ham (Hutchinson)
- Hazel Miller (Emporia)
- Irma Minden (Paola)
- Gladys Peterson (Lindsborg)
- Doris Stith (Bonner Springs)
1967 Kansas Master Teachers
- Dr. J. W. Breukelman (Emporia State University)
- Lois Hogue (Pratt)
- Dr. Perva M. Hughes (Pittsburg State University)
- Winifred Jennings (Shawnee)
- Jean Jones (Topeka)
- Florence Miller (Iola)
- Cecil E. Smith (Pittsburg)
- Adel F. Throckmorton (State Superintendent)
1966 Kansas Master Teachers
- Eva M. Chalfant (El Dorado)
- Louis A. Coppoc (Belpre)
- Helen Glaser (Coffeyville)
- Evelyn Harper (Atchison)
- Maurice Little (Goodland)
- Ione Ramey (Olathe)
- Wesley E. Simpson (Salina)
1965 Kansas Master Teachers
- Rebecca Bloodworth (Kansas City)
- Bryce H. Gleckler (Dodge City)
- Mabel Lacey (Gorham)
- Hazel Lee Simmons (Lawrence)
- Floyd C. Smith (Iola)
- Dorothy Vaughn (Neodesha)
- Ethel Yantis (Howard)
1964 Kansas Master Teachers
- Dan Foster (LaCrosse)
- Mary Hunholz (Manhattan)
- Erdman Johnson (Turner)
- Loma Mack (Madison)
- Bernadine Sitts (Garden City)
- Lillie Elizabeth Studt (Glasco)
- Dewey E. Wolgast (Marysville)
- Ruth Stout Wright (Topeka)
1963 Kansas Master Teachers
- May Gruver (Augusta)
- Alta Hendrickson (Oakley)
- Walter M. Ostenberg (Salina)
- Pearl Peterie (Kinsley)
- Phebe Scott (Derby)
- Martha Steele (Goodland)
- Charles E. Strange (Wichita)
1962 Kansas Master Teachers
- Dr. William A. Black (Pittsburg State University)
- Eunice McGill (Sterling College)
- Nellie McGuinn (Kansas City)
- Owen R. McNeil (Peabody)
- Ella C. Shearer (Beloit)
- Marie Therkelsen (Independence)
- William D. Wolfe (Lawrence)
1961 Kansas Master Teachers
- Reba Anderson (Hutchinson)
- George D. Caldwell (Iola)
- Lydia Haag (Dodge City)
- Larry Ling (Liberal)
- Dorothy McPherson (Coffeyville)
- Jane E. Roether (Junction City)
- Ruth Socolofsky (Manhattan)
1960 Kansas Master Teachers
- Eula Bridger (Kansas City)
- Mary Louise Gritten (Bird City)
- Lena Carl (Holcomb)
- Owen E. Hodgson (Salina)
- Opal Jayne Kennedy (Lawrence)
- Pauline Shockey (Wellington)
- Blanch Smith (Pittsburg)
- C. O. Wright (Topeka, KSTA)
1959 Kansas Master Teachers
- Henrietta Courtright (Arkansas City)
- Nettie May Davis (Winchester)
- Paul R. Dick (Oakley)
- Ethlyn Hamlin (Fort Scott)
- Robert H. Pool (Larned)
- Dr. Ruth Thompson (Sterling)
- Jane Townsend (Girard)
1958 Kansas Master Teachers
- Mildred Cunningham (Parsons)
- Myrrl Houck (El Dorado)
- Julian A. Johnson (Buhler)
- Edward D. Kroesch (Hoisington)
- Dr. Minnie M. Miller (Emporia State University)
- Elsie N. Parrish (Concordia)
- Maude Thompson (Marion)
1957 Kansas Master Teachers
- Teresa McDonald Coffey (Axtell)
- Dr. Maud Ellsworth (University of Kansas)
- Una Funk (Council Grove)
- Mildred P. Parker (Hutchinson)
- Dr. Clyde U. Phillips (Fort Hays State University)
- Ruth Flory Sexton (Howard)
- Katherine A. Tucker (Topeka)
1956 Kansas Master Teachers
- Florence K. Belding (Iola)
- Dr. Jane M. Carroll (Pittsburg State University)
- Clifford H. Dresher (McPherson)
- John E. Humphreys (Ashland)
- Mamie D. Mellinger (Emporia)
- Katie Puls (Attica)
- Audrey Smith (Goodland)
1955 Kansas Master Teachers
- Redicia Engholm (Topeka)
- Edna Mason Golladay (Wichita)
- Gaye Iden (Arkansas City)
- Gussie Mootz (Dodge City)
- Elsie Olson (Marysville)
- M. F. Stark (Hiawatha)
- Dr. John Twente (University of Kansas)
1954 Kansas Master Teachers
- Laura M. Beichley (Ulysses)
- Harry H. Brown (Peabody)
- Lucy Headrick (Winfield)
- Ira Laidig (Oberlin)
- Edith Ellen Means (Princeton)
- Violet Randolph (Atchison)
- Grace E. Stewart (Salina)