Excellent Educator

Teachers give so much of who they are to the students they teach. The Excellent Educator Award is awarded to outstanding teachers and substitutes that continually go above and beyond to make a difference in the lives of their students.
Help us at ABC 6 News honor the wonderful teachers in our area by awarding them with the Excellent Educator Award!
Students and parents can nominate their teachers for a chance to win not only this award, but also an ABC 6 coffee mug as well as a gift from our sponsors.
To nominate a deserving teacher, visit HERE.
Excellent Educator: Jennifer Bellefeuille
(ABC 6 News) — Teachers help create the stepping stones that kids use as they go through life. Inside an Owatonna Middle School orchestra class, Jessica Bellefeuille works to combine fun and learning. “My goal was to make kids want to be in music again. It’s not something that they do after they’re done with…
Excellent Educator: Shane Uptagrafft
(ABC 6 News) — The first month of the year has come and gone, and now it is time to recognize one of the many teachers making a big impact on students. While students at Lourdes High School may know Shane Uptagrafft as their history teacher, that originally wasn’t the case for him. For Uptagrafft,…
Excellent Educator: Alex Campbell
(ABC 6 News) – Health class might be the last thing you’d want to do in middle school, but for Alex Campbell’s students at Kellogg Middle School, it’s anything but. “He’s like a really cool, fun teacher and he always makes a way to make the class not boring,” said student Samuel Mohr. “He’s just…