Northwestern State University’s School of Education hosted an apple pinning ceremony for future educators who are now teacher candidates.  Students eligible for the pinning are education majors who have completed 30 hours of coursework while maintaining a grade point average of 2.5 or better.  

Dr. Katrina Jordan, director of the School, said the pinning is “a milestone on the journey to becoming an educator and work over the next two years builds up to residency” for the teacher candidates.  

Teacher candidates are listed by hometowns. 

Alexandria — Dalayia Davion, Thomas Johnson, Alissa Roberts 

Anacoco — Karlea Welch 

Athens, Texas — Jessica Dubose  

Atlanta, Texas — Austin Head 

Ball — JulieAnn Prince 

Bogota, Texas — Harmony Marsh 

Bossier City — Julianne Dachel, Haley Henderson 

Bridgewater, Massachusetts — Conner Mackie 

Brownsville, Texas — Dominick Saldivar 

Creole — Amberlee Saltzman 

Dubberly — Jayde Burks 

Fort Worth, Texas — Kohner Smith 

Harlingen, Texas – Cadence Carpio 

Houma — Ramiyah Rounds 

Jonesboro — Georgia Robinson 

Kilgore, Texas — Madeline Horton, Kirk Ybanez 

Leesville — Natalie Norris 

Madisonville — Barrett Hodgson 

Maurice — Eileen Ashley 

Mansfield — Kamariya Thomas 

Many — Kristen Hammontree, Emma Wilson 

Monroe — Madison Bruce 

Natchez – Cassidy Gandy  

Natchitoches — Abigail Bevill, Armonie Haywood, Emma Miller, Kennedi Revels, Manuel Riego Fernandez, Maria Simien, Ysenia Zapata 

Pineville — Jack Blair 

Princeton — Natalie Olvera  

Quitman — Kaitlyn Williams 

St. Petersburg, Florida — Gabriela Marshall 

Simsboro — Garrett Moss 

Sulphur — Julian Peshoff 

Winnfield — Mattie Beaubouef  

Zwolle — Madilyn Laroux, Kamaryn Rivers, Victoria Sepulvado 

Information on Northwestern State’s School of Education is available at https://www.nsula.edu/education/.   

Pictured: Education majors at Northwestern State University received apple pins as they completed their freshman year of coursework and are considered teacher candidates. On the front row from left are Eileen Ashley, Cadence Carpio, Jayde Burks, Kamariya Thomas, Amberlee Saltzman, Dalayia Davion, Julian Peshoff, Kennedi Revels and Conner Mackie.  On the back row are Dr. Katrina Jordan, director of NSU’s School of Education; Natalie Olvera, Victoria Sepulvado, Kamaryn Rivers, Haley Henderson, Emma Miller, Cassidy Gandy, Kristen Hammontree, Madison Bruce, Dominick Saldivar and Dr. Wendi O’Halloran, director of Clinical Practice and Partnerships. 

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