DU Alum Rogelio Aguilar Named Golden Apple Award Finalist

Rogelio Aguilar ’14 is a 2024 finalist for the Golden Apple Award, a prestigious honor recognizing select Illinois teachers. 

Aguilar teaches bilingual (Spanish and English) second grade at Marquette School of Excellence in Chicago. He has taught at the school for six years.

“I love teaching bilingual students and allowing them to learn in two languages to set them up for the same opportunities people who study second languages in college get when they grow older,” Aguilar said in a Chicago Public Schools piece highlighting some of this year’s Golden Apple Award finalists.