Leadership
Dominic BelmontePresident and Chief Executive Officer
312-407-0006 ext. 110
belmonte@goldenapple.org
Dominic Belmonte was named Golden Apple Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2006. He had previously served as Director of Teacher Preparation. Belmonte, a former English teacher and department chair at York Community High School in Elmhurst, received the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1987. He was named Director of Teacher Preparation in 1996.
Belmonte co-created the Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois in 1989, now the largest pre-service teacher-support program in the nation, with more than 1,000 Scholars teaching or on their way in high-need schools throughout Illinois. In 1996, he co-created the Golden Apple Teacher Education program (GATE), which provides an alternative pathway to teacher certification for mature adults in mid-career who wish to teach secondary math, science, or elementary school children. The GATE program, which inaugurated alternative pathways to teaching in Illinois, transformed to GATE Consultancy in 2007.
Belmonte is the author of two books, "Teaching From the Deep End" and "Teaching on Solid Ground," both published by Corwin Press, California. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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