KINDERHOOK, Ill. (WGEM) — Western Junior High School teacher Kim Koeller was awarded the WGEM Golden Apple Award. Koeller has spent nearly 35 years teaching at her alma mater, a rarity in modern education. “Spending almost 35 years in one district is really rare, something you are not going to find hardly at all anymore,” said Lacy White, Western Junior High School principal. “There’s not many people that stay in education that length of time.” Teaching was not Koeller’s original plan.