Amborn receives teaching award

Loghan Amborn, former agriculture teacher at Greenwood High School, has received the Outstanding Early Career Teacher award from the Wisconsin Association of Agricultural Educators (WAAE). Amborn was presented this award at the WAAE Professional Development Conference held at the Oshkosh Waterfront Hotel and Convention Center June 23-27.

Amborn has taught for seven years, all at Greenwood High School. Greenwood offers 11 agriculture classes. Enrollment in the transcripted credit horticulture course has increased five-fold over the course of five years.

This past school year, Greenwood introduced the Professional Learning Community model to help staff collaborate and grow; Amborn was an active part of the steering committee for the initiative.

One hundred percent of students enrolled in the agriculture department at Greenwood have a supervised agricultural experience (SAE) project. In addition, the Greenwood agricultural education program is in its seventh year of its land plot project in cooperation with the FFA Alumni and Clark Electric Cooperative, and partnering with multiple local businesses to donate inputs and labor for the project. Over $15,000 in scholarships have been awarded from profits to FFA seniors. Members help conduct activities on the land and present annually at stakeholder meetings about the project’s progress to audiences of up to 100 people.

Amborn is moving on to new ventures, as she left the Greenwood School District upon the completion of the 2023-24 school year. In May, the Greenwood School Board hired Jillian (Tyler) Lebal to fill the agriculture teacher position.

Loghan Amborn