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What a way to start Thanksgiving, exclaimed Tommie Barfield Elementary School teacher Elizabeth Braren, as she receives a hug from her first grade music class and Sandy Waite of the Board of Education Foundation. Braren received the Teacher of Distinction Award from the Board of Education Foundation Tuesday and is among 40 teachers who will be in the running for the Golden Apple Award. Nominations for the award come from peers, parents, students and class observers.

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What a way to start Thanksgiving, exclaimed Tommie Barfield Elementary School teacher Elizabeth Braren, as she receives a hug from her first grade music class and Sandy Waite of the Board of Education Foundation. Braren received the Teacher of Distinction Award from the Board of Education Foundation Tuesday and is among 40 teachers who will be in the running for the Golden Apple Award. Nominations for the award come from peers, parents, students and class observers.

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  • What a way to start Thanksgiving, exclaimed Tommie Barfield Elementary School teacher Elizabeth Braren, as she receives a hug from her first grade music class and Sandy Waite of the Board of Education Foundation. Braren received the Teacher of Distinction Award from the Board of Education Foundation Tuesday and is among 40 teachers who will be in the running for the Golden Apple Award. Nominations for the award come from peers, parents, students and class observers.
  • Jonathon Mundorf's fifth grade social studies class experiences a brief interruption as members of the Board of Education Foundation, Lillian Roche, left, and Sandy Waite, right, present Mundorf with the Teacher of Distinction Award. Mundorf is one of two Tommie Barfield Elementary School teachers to receive the award Tuesday and be in the running for the Golden Apple Award.
  • Jacqueline Williams, Lely EMH teacher and Principal Ken Fairbanks are all smiles after Williams was surprised to learn she is one of 40 teachers named Teachers of Recognition. She qualifies for the Golden Apple Award given in May, 2008. Roger LaLonde/Staff
  • Gregory Foote, center, head of Lely High's Construction Tech Lab, stands with Danny Tyler, left and Fred Weinman of The Education Foundation of Collier County who surprised Foote by telling him he is one of 40 teachers who have been selected as Teachers of Distinction. The 40 become candidates for a Golden Apple as part of the 19th Annual Golden Apple Teacher Recognition, which will be announced in May, 2009. Above them are students finishing a storage buidling they helped make. The students also build doll houses and real houses in Foote's class. Roger LaLonde/Staff

Two Tommie Barfield Elementary School teachers and two Lely High School teachers are among 40 Teachers of Distinction awards presented by the Board of Education Foundation. The award puts them in the running for the Golden Apple Award.

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