The Coalition for Residential Education (CORE) has named Milton Hershey School® (MHS) Teacher Dennis Moore its Residential Educator of the Year. Moore received the award during the group’s national conference in Hershey.

Founded in 1994 and based in the Washington, D.C., area, CORE is a national nonprofit organization that serves economically and socially disadvantaged children through residential education programs.

Moore has taught biology and anatomy/physiology at MHS for 10 years. A native of Middletown, he earned his bachelor’s degree in Science Teaching from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and taught biology and advanced placement biology at Central Dauphin High School for nine years. Outside of the classroom, Moore serves as assistant varsity football coach and assistant varsity track and field coach at MHS, along with coaching elementary school basketball and baseball in Palmyra. He also has been involved with the Jane Goodall Institute and helped write curriculum for its global Roots & Shoots program. Moore also is an accomplished artist whose work is currently part of an exhibition in the Clyde Stacks Visual Arts Center Gallery on the MHS campus.

“The nominee has the ability to connect with our students like few others do,” Moore’s nominators stated. “Many students find not only academic success, but also personal success through their interactions with him.”

Moore resides in Palmyra with his wife Jennifer and their children, Ethan, 10, and Emily, 13.

MHS Teacher Dennis Moore received Residential Educator of the Year honors from the Coalition of Residential Education during the group’s national conference held recently in Hershey. Pictured here at the awards banquet are (L-R): Moore’s wife Jennifer, son Ethan, daughter Emily, Moore, and CORE Founder and Executive Director Heidi Goldsmith.