Golden Apple 2025: Brianna Kehoe

GREEN BAY – Brianna Kehoe grew up in Hobart and attended Pulaski High School.

“I went on to major in biology and business with a minor in chemistry at St. Norbert College,” Kehoe said. “Immediately after graduating from St. Norbert College, I enrolled into their education program. In January of 2004 I began my teaching career with Green Bay Public Schools. Just a few years into my teaching career I completed my masters in education.

“Making my way back to Pulaski to teach was always a long term goal of mine. My husband and I established our home and family in the Pulaski School District early on. In August of 2022, I was offered a teaching position with Pulaski Community School District and the timing was right. My first year in Pulaski I got to teach my son; that was pretty amazing.”
Kehoe comes from a family of 18 educators.

“My dad was a middle school science teacher and my mother was a math professor. Several other aunts, uncles and cousins are also in the field of education,” she explained.

“They modeled for me what true greatness in the classroom looks like. Their dedication to the profession shaped me into who I am as an educator.
“Fun fact, at one point in my teaching career there were three other teachers and one student that I was related to in the school.”

Kehoe said what makes her classroom unique is “the energy and passion that I bring every day.”

“I am thrilled to share my science knowledge with my students and find it works best by ‘doing’ science. Just in the next few weeks we have frog dissections, the Medical College of Wisconsin students coming with human organs, a field trip to Urban Air in which we will conduct a lab related to the respiratory and circulatory systems and two epic engineering challenges,” she added.

“In one challenge students design and build a working prosthetic hand and in the other they design and build a medical device to clear plaque from the inside of arteries. On a daily basis I want them to leave my classroom liking science a little more than when they walked in.”

Leading up to the 2025 Golden Apple Awards on Wednesday, April 2 at the Oneida Casino Hotel, we will be highlighting the recipients in each edition of the Press Times.