Past winners of the George Hanson DAPE Award are:
1989 Don Glover - White Bear Lake Public Schools
1990 Pamela A. Foster
1991 Daryl Miller - Anoka Public Schools
1992 Kay Oling - Duluth Public Schools
1993 Kim Thomas - Bemidji Public Schools
1993 Sally Wiltse - Bemidji Public Schools
1994 John Horstman -
1994 Ron Margo - Columbia Heights Public Schools
1995 George Hanson - MDE
1996 Debra Johansen - St. Cloud Public Schools
1997 Ruth Nearing - St. Cloud State University
1998 Russel M. Bakko - Mounds View Public Schools
1999 Lynn Cox - Eden Prairie Public Schools
2000 Mari Bergerson - Delano Public Schools
2001 Patrick Baumann - Virginia Public Schools
2002 Allen Burton - University of Minnesota
2002 Sherry Folsom-Meek - Mankato State University
2003 Bruce Suneson - Burnsville Public Schools
2005 Lynn Beckenbach - Cambridge Public Schools
2006 Nancy Rud Gordon - Burnsville Public Schools
2007 Rich Burke - Mounds View Public Schools
2008 Rick Rentz - St. Cloud Public Schools
2009 Kim Pierson - Two Harbors Public Schools
2010 Anne (Gregoire) Thompson - Edina Public Schools
2011 Angie Powell - Minneapolis Public Schools
2012 Sue Tarr - St. Cloud State University
2013 Nancy Christensen - Minnesota State Moorhead
2014 Andy Kubat - Dawson/Boyd Public Schools
2015 Steve Sizer - St. Peter Public Schools
2016 Donna Palivec - Bemidji State University
2017 Carol Skoe - BRIC
2018 Luann Palmquist - St. Cloud
2019 Jaqueline Stoffel - Bemidji Public Schools