The Teacher Excellence Center has selected 106 Western Pennsylvania teachers to be honored in its annual teacher recognition program.

The teachers were among 4,000 nominated from 75 school districts. The top five winners, each of whom will receive a $2,500 grant for their schools, will be announced on April 27.

The honorees are:

Allegheny County: Allegheny Valley, Rebecca Dyer; Avonworth, Elaine Barron; Baldwin-Whitehall, Kathleen Rosso; Bethel Park, Michael Petrossi, Gloria Feather, Erin Kletter, Jennifer Callahan and Linda Graney; Chartiers Valley, Timothy Young, Helen Lucatorto, Anthony McIntyre and Kristen Steen; Clairton City, Amy Lynn Bittner; Deer Lakes, Tammy McQueen.

East Allegheny, Kathy Rosa-Fung; Fox Chapel Area, Elizabeth Moser; Highlands, Jeannine Vivino, Dennis Wray and Samantha Perlik; Keystone Oaks, Betty Elliot, Nancy Fallgren, Jeanne Sting, William Opperman, Mary McCormack-Locke and Joan Vidale; Montour, Ruth Dines.

Moon Area, Kyle Burgess; Mt. Lebanon, Peter DiNardo and CeCe Kapron; North Allegheny, Robert Tozier, Karen Storm, Sharon Kroll, Carolyn Pysch and Chris Panos; North Hills, Evelyn A. Levine; Penn Hills, Kristen Marino; Pine Richland, Anne Haught, Vicki Bresnan, Colleen Todd, Bonnie Allessi, Constance Karrs and Lisa Olson; Pittsburgh Public Schools, Ruth E. Hendricks (Greenfield Elementary), Edward Henke (Langley High), Iris Smith (Burgwin Elementary) and Carol Jenkins (Burgwin).

Plum, Diane Yorkshire, Brenda Griffith, Joseph Ionta, James Marston, Eli Shaheen, Joe Clark and Joseph Marchlewski; Quaker Valley, John Doucette and Gene Klein; Riverview, Sue Ellen Dunlap; Shaler Area, David Fortun; South Allegheny, Melissa Washburn Wasson; South Park, Patricia Forsyth; Sto-Rox, Heather Johnston.

Upper St. Clair. Paul Fox and Jean Austin; West Jefferson Hills, Lucy Fortino and Charles Stout; West Mifflin Area, Sarah Moreno; Wilkinsburg, Robert Schneider; Woodland Hills, Cathy Choma.

Beaver County: Aliquippa, Renee Yates; Big Beaver Falls, Yvonne Thickey; New Brighton Area, Jennifer Shuster; Riverside Beaver County, LuAnn Santillo.

Butler County: Mars Area, Bruce Watson; Seneca Valley, Todd Karman, James Nagle and Mary Wildman.

Fayette County: Albert Gallatin Area, Kristie Bogozi.

Lawrence County: Neshannock, Malynda Nichols.

Mercer County: Greenville Area, Ricard Zilla; Hermitage, Paula Leeds; Sharon City, Diane Romo.

Washington County: Canon-McMillan, Michael Caporizzo; Charleroi, Tyra Tylus; Chartiers-Houston, Annette Caruso; Peters, Robert Dell, Lora O'Brien, Kelly Zajicek, Madeline Sipp, Barry Wood and Cynthia Ollendyke; Trinity Area, Mary Ann Berty and Kristen Shaw; Washington, Lorraine Kelly, Cynthia Gregg, Janet Stechly and Charlotte Sypula.

Westmoreland County: Burrell, Sandra Becker; Derry Area, Linda Miller; Franklin Regional, Carol Schneider; Hempfield Area, Lori Roscher, Theresa Lynn Grove, Vicky Kubeldis and Richard Goimarac; New Kensington-Arnold, Wendy Lynn Anderson and Samantha Isaac; Norwin, Carl Huszar; Penn Trafford, D. Scott Mickey.