Belmonte, Dominic

Dominic Belmonte taught at York Community High School in Elmhurst, Illinois, for twenty years as an English teacher and Chairman of the English Department. He is now Director of Teacher Preparation for the Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching. A member and past chairman of the Golden Apple Academy of Educators, in 1989 he co-created the Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois program, a pre-induction teacher preparation experience which is now the Golden Apple Foundation's largest program, named by Harvard University as one of 15 programs out of 1,200 nationwide as a finalist for its I...