Each year, our PTSA recognizes outstanding volunteers with a Golden Acorn award and exceptional educators with an Outstanding Educator award. 

The Golden Acorn Award honors people who have given exemplary volunteer service to children and youth in our school community. Recipients volunteer in ways that meet the mission of PTA: promoting the health, welfare, safety, and education of ALL children and youth. 

2021-2022 Golden Acorn Recipients: We are pleased to announce that the 2021-22 recipients of the Golden Acorn awards are: Cortney Eldridge, KiLan Black, and Tracy Cooke.

The Outstanding Educator Award was created by PTSAs to recognize individuals who have gone beyond the normal expectations of their jobs to make the learning environment fun, beneficial and challenging. An outstanding educator can be a teacher, specialist, assistant, counselor, support staff, custodian, bus driver, administrator, or community member. Nominations occur January through April and are presented in May.  

Each Golden Acorn and Outstanding Educator Award recipient is given an award pin and his/her name is added to a plaque in the main office. In addition, our PTSA contributes $48 in the recipient’s name to the Washington State PTA Scholarship Foundation, which provides scholarships for post-secondary students.  Golden Acorn recipients are honored at a PTSA meeting and at a district-wide reception. Outstanding Educators are honored at an IMS staff meeting. 

Nominations for both are solicited in January-March (depending on award meeting date) each year. The deadline date for nominations can be found on the nomination forms, on the PTSA home page, and in the Panther Press.

Past Golden Acorn Award Recipients

Outstanding Educator Award Recipients