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1967 – 2026 · the grantors' rolls read whole
The Indiana Teacher of the Year test: the Department of Education's own roll of past Indiana Teachers of the Year was read whole, from 1967 through 2024 as the department prints it. No winner on that roll was seated at a school on this ground — the roll's St. Joseph County names belong to South Bend's schools and stand in that city's record. The roll carries exactly one winner from this district: Stacy McCormack, 2011, listed by the department under the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation at Mishawaka; the corporation's high school, where the district's senior teaching honors of that era sat, stands across the township line in Mishawaka, and McCormack's title is carried in that city's build at boundary strength. The verdict for this ground is therefore precise: no Indiana Teacher of the Year has ever been seated at a Granger school, and Amanda Fox's Top 10 finish in the 2023 cycle — reached from the Elsie Rogers classroom, on the strength of work the national roster seats at Prairie Vista — is the deepest run this ground's teaching record holds, printed in her entry above at full size.
The Milken test: the Milken Educator Award — the foundation's $25,000 unrestricted prize, given without application to educators scouted in secret, and called by its grantor the "Oscars of Teaching" — was tested against the Indiana Department of Education's roll of Indiana recipients, 1993–2009, and the department's current winners page, which carries the state's recent recipients by name and school. No recipient on either roll was seated at a school on this ground, and no recipient in the 1993–2009 roll was seated anywhere in St. Joseph County. The Michiana Milken of the modern record stands in Mishawaka's build — Ryan Towner, a Mishawaka principal — and is that city's to tell. The line for this ground is empty, and prints empty.
The PAEMST frame, district-wide: three teachers of this valley stand on the White House's PAEMST rosters in the modern record. John Gensic of Penn High School, the science recipient the district dates to 2017, was the district's first; Sara Hoover of Beiger Elementary, Mishawaka, took the science award in Fox's own 2020 cohort; Amanda Fox took the mathematics award of that cohort. Gensic's and Hoover's seats stand in Mishawaka, and their entries are Mishawaka's build's to carry. Fox is the only one of the three the granting roster seats on this ground — which is why this section's anchor stands where it does, and why the district frame prints here at pointer size only.
Sources:
- Indiana Department of Education, "Past Indiana Teachers of the Year" (the roll read whole, 1967–2024; Stacy McCormack, 2011, Penn Harris Madison School Corporation, Mishawaka; Tara Cocanower, 2023, Bluffton-Harrison MSD), in.gov.
- Indiana Department of Education, "Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award Recipients, 1993–2009" (the roll read whole; no St. Joseph County school), in.gov; and the department's Milken Educator Awards page (the state's recent recipients, none seated in the CDP), in.gov.
- The Awards & Honors leg of the Mishawaka build (the Milken entry for Ryan Towner; the PAEMST entries for its own teachers), cross-referenced.