Board recognizes multiple teachers for state honors; local resident donates books
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The Emporia board honored several staff for state and regional awards, including a Kansas Horizon Award recipient and Kansas Master Teacher selection. Local resident Angie Schreiber offered two autographed books by her daughter for Emporia High School's library and thanked a board member for Capitol advocacy on literacy.
The Emporia Public Schools Board opened its Feb. 11 meeting with a series of recognitions for staff across the district.
Speaker 5 announced that Alyssa McHugh, a fourth-grade teacher at Walnut Elementary, had been selected as a 2026 Kansas Horizon Award recipient. The Horizon Award, sponsored by the Kansas State Department of Education, recognizes outstanding first-year teachers. McHugh will be honored at the Kansas Exemplary Educators Network Conference in Topeka on Feb. 20, 2026.
The board also recognized Sarah Bays (Emporia High School vocal teacher) and Alex Foschultz (fifth-grade teacher at Village Elementary) as district nominees for the Kansas Teacher of the Year process; Kathleen Gilliland (Emporia High School) was named a 2026 Kansas Master Teacher, and Meredith Knapp (Walnut Elementary) was selected by the North Central Kansas Music Educators Association as outstanding elementary music educator for the 2025–26 school year.
During public comment, local resident Angie Schreiber identified herself and thanked Board member Barb Fowler for attending Literacy Day at the Capitol with her; Schreiber described advocacy for a trailer-bill literacy ask of $8,600,000 to support third-grade reading instruction and offered two autographed books by her daughter, Gretchen Schreiber, for the Emporia High School library.
The board offered congratulations to honorees and accepted the public comment; no formal votes were required for recognitions or the donation offer.