A New Berlin educator is one of five in Wisconsin to be honored with the state's Teacher of the Year award
"I feel like my hard work has been valued and has paid off."
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"I feel like my hard work has been valued and has paid off."
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 u...