Here are Philly’s 60 best teachers of 2025
Each Lindback Award winner receives $3,500 in recognition of their hard work.

Sixty Philadelphia School District teachers are being honored today as top of the class educators: winners of the 2025 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Each will receive $3,500 in recognition of their talent, hard work, and dedication. They were chosen from among the school system’s roughly 9,000 educators, nominated by administrators and selected by a group of school system and Lindback representatives.
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The 2025 Lindback prize winners are:
Nancy Cook, Washington Post
Robert D. McFadden, New York Times
Leah Willingham, Associated Press
Will Weissert, Gary Fields, and Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press
Sophie Austin, Jaimie Ding, and Christopher Weber, Associated Press
Ben Conarck, Washington Post
Aya Diab and Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press
Lekan Oyekanmi, Anna Wilder, and Valerie Gonazlez, Associated Press
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, and Tyler Pager, New York Times
Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush, and Alan Feuer, New York Times
Dear Abby, Inquirer wire services
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