An auditorium filled with family, colleagues and friends turned out to support the township school district’s 2025-’26 Teachers and Educational Services Professionals of the Year.
The board of education acknowledged the honorees’ numerous individual and collective accolades and contributions to the school community at a public board work session on Jan. 20 at the Play House at the high school.
The honorees included:
2025-’26 Teachers of the Year
Preschool: Brooke Barbara
Bells Elementary School: Jennifer Natale, grade four
Birches Elementary: Allison Borowiec, interventionist
Hurffville Elementary: Staci McCauley, grade two
Thomas Jefferson Elementary: Kristen DiCastelnuovo, grade one, special education
Wedgwood Elementary: Elizabeth Johnson, kindergarten
Whitman Elementary: Courtney Stumpf, art teacher
Bunker Hill Middle School: Maria Meo, special education
Chestnut Ridge Middle School: Heather Halicks, grade six, English/Language Arts
Orchard Valley Middle: Janine Navarra, special education
Washington Township High School: Alexandria Ackley, business education; Kevin Parker, English
2025-’26 Educational Services Professionals of the Year
Elementary level: Stephanie Martucci, dean of students; Kelly Chropka, Birches Elementary counselor
Middle level: Jenny Kerfoot, Bunker Hill Middle, school counselor
High-school level: Frances Mulvihill, counselorÂ
