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Every year, Northwestern’s education alumni earn regional, state and national awards. Recent honors include the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, Outstanding Teacher-Librarian of the Year for the Manitoba province, and the Promising Teacher Award from the Iowa Council of Teachers of English.
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Education graduates
Preschool
Elementary school
Middle school
High school
Special education
English as a second language/overseas
Preschool
Jenny Dighton ’04 is a special education preschool teacher at Rue Elementary School, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Elementary school
Ryan Simmelink ’06 teaches fourth grade at Adams Elementary School in Carroll, Iowa.
Mary Elizabeth Breen ’05 teaches kindergarten and first grade at Sanborn Christian School, Iowa.
Jeremy Van Soelen ’05 teaches fourth grade at Highland Elementary in Pierce, Colorado. He also is an assistant football coach.
Heidi Hagena ’04 teaches second grade at Fullerton Elementary in Omaha, Nebraska.
Erin Peters ’04 teaches first grade at Orange City (Iowa) Elementary.
Middle school
Brady Baker ’06 teaches middle school math in Sibley, Iowa.
Lori Rasmussen ’05 teaches seventh grade math in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
Aaron Delhay ’03 teaches middle school science and social studies in Butte, Montana.
High school
Jennifer Hoitink ’06 teaches Spanish at Valley Christian High School in Cerritos, California.
Bryan Branderhorst ’03 teaches Bible there.
Brennan Van Loo ’06 is a junior and senior high science teacher at Mt. Vernon Christian School in Washington.
Jerica Westra ’05 teaches 7-12 math in Irene, South Dakota.
Abby Stevens ’01 taught English as a second language for two years in Tokyo, Japan, before returning to the U.S. to teach high school English in Ottumwa, Iowa.
Special education
Monica Pearson ’06 is a 1st and 5th grade resource teacher at Roberts Elementary School in Katy, Texas.
Marie Christianson ’05 teaches special education classes in the Lower Kuskokwim School District of Tuntatuliak, Alaska.
Christie Walker ’04 is a third grade resource room teacher in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Heidi Anderson ’02 directs an alternative education program for at-risk children in Iowa City, Iowa.
English as a second language/overseas
Joy Den Hartog ’06 teaches English as a second language at Adams and Willard elementary schools in Des Moines, Iowa.
Meagan Anderson ’05 teaches English in Costa Rica.
Victoria De Jong ’05 teaches English in the Japanese public schools.
Jamie Ongna ’05 is a middle school English and elementary reading teacher at a missionary school in Bahrain.
Kristin Nikkel ’04 teaches fifth through seventh grades at a missionary school in Manama, Bahrain.
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