Two NCE Alumni Receive 2024 Golden Apple Awards

Two NCE Alumnae recently received a 2024 Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. This annual award recognizes outstanding teachers for having lasting, positive effects on students’ lives and school communities. Award recipients demonstrate a significant, positive impact on their students’ growth and learning through their teaching and results.

NCE is proud to announce our 2024 Golden Apple alumnae recipients:

• Precious Allen, a 2nd-grade teacher at Betty Shabazz Academy in Chicago,
  Precious is a three-time graduate of NLU, having received her Bachelor’s (’10 Elementary Education), Master’s (’14 Reading) and Educational Specialist (’21 Educational Leadership) degrees.
• Olga Nuñez-Johnson, a bilingual General Education teacher at Thomas J. Waters School in Chicago. Olga received her Master’s from NLU in Reading in 2015.

The Golden Apple Foundation is the leading Illinois-based nonprofit committed to preparing, mentoring, and honoring great educators who advance educational opportunities for students. Following a highly competitive process, the 2024 teaching award recipients were selected from more than 600 nominations of Pre-K-3rd grade teachers. 

Congratulations, Precious and Olga! To date, the National College of Education at National Louis University has had over 85 alumni receive this prestigious Excellence in Teaching award! See all of our NCE Golden Apple winners.