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Previous Winners
2025 Winner
Stephanie Sinon
When educators commit to learning and growth themselves, their students thrive. That dedication is what makes an Excellent Educator winner.Â
Learn all about Stephanie’s approach by watching the video below.
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2024 Winner
Tiffany Warren, PCCN Preschool
Sometimes you just need to make that phone call home! Get a peek behind the scenes of Tiffany learning that she had received the 5th Annual Sandy Standish Excellent Educator Award!
Learn all about Colleen’s approach by watching the video below.
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2023 Winner
Colleen Flinton, Heart & Hands Preschool
It’s not your traditional circle time! Hear from KC Ready 4s staff, parents and her peers on why Colleen received the 4th Annual Sandy Standish Excellent Educator Award!
Learn all about Colleen’s approach by watching the video below.
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2022 Winner
Kayla Gonzalez, Escuelita Nuevo Horizonte
Kayla’s students make this celebratory video extra fun with dancing and confetti! KC Ready 4s, El Concilio, and community supporters come together to recognize Kayla receiving the 3rd Annual Sandy Standish Excellent Educator Award!
Kayla is celebrated in the video below.
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2021 Winner
Kathy Lindner, The Farmhouse
“This year has been so hard, and Kathy has been so resilient and she has shown up for the kids and the staff.” Congratulations to Kathy for receiving the 2nd Annual Sandy Standish Excellent Educator Award!
Kathy is surprised with the award in the video below.
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2020 Winner
Laurie Kreg, PCCN Preschool
Laurie thinks she’s being interviewed for her role as a Teacher Mentor – we actually surprised her with the 1st Annual Sandy Standish Excellent Educator Award!
Grab your tissues, and view her reaction in the video below.
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History of the Sandy Standish Excellent Educator Award
The 10th Anniversary Committee and the KC Ready 4s Board wanted a vehicle to recognize Sandy for her outstanding devotion, dedication and long range perspective as she laid the groundwork and developed this unique initiative. Her distinguished lifetime experience in the field of education brought with it a recognition of the critical needs of program directors, teachers, students and families.
This led her to create a highly collaborative system that included valuable whole child development resources such as: teacher mentors, speech and language evaluations, curriculum enhancements, whole child development assessment tools, etc.. Sandy Standish’s knowledge, experience and leadership style set an extremely important foundation to elevate pre-K education excellence throughout the county! This award was also created to recognize and emphasis the tremendous value excellent educators (like Sandy) bring to our entire community.