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When Tarah Fedenia learned she was one of five educators in Wisconsin presented with the 2022 Wisconsin Teachers of the Year Award by the state Department of Public Instruction, she did not see it coming.
First, Fedenia, a bilingual speech and language pathologist at Poplar Creek Elementary School in New Berlin, was told by her principal, Matt Stempniewski, that she was selected to be on a Zoom call last week with departing state superintendent Carolyn Stanford-Taylor and that the state had selected its Herb Kohl Educational Foundation s Teacher Fellowship Program award winners.
It wasn t until the end of the call that she was told she was being named a teacher of the year.
May 11, 2021
Harmony Elementary School in Milton speech language pathologist Anna Miller is named a 2022 Wisconsin Teacher of the Year.
During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Miller created and donated more than 250 facemasks for those in her community. She also created an innovative play-based preschool speech program for 3-year-olds.
The 2022 Wisconsin Teachers of the Year are among the 101 educators recognized earlier this year by the Herb Kohl Educational Foundation’s Teacher Fellowship Program, which honors and supports teaching excellence and innovation across Wisconsin.
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