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Jessica Meacham Earns Kohl Foundation Honor

A statewide committee composed of civic and educational leaders has chosen  Southern Door County School District elementary teacher Jessica Meacham to receive the 2021 Herb Kohl Foundation Teacher Fellowship Award

She taught in Minnesota for six years, then moved to Wisconsin and has been teaching for the past 18 years at Southern Door, where she founded and teaches the pre-K–12 STEAM program. Meacham was named Wisconsin’s Rural Teacher of the Year in 2013 and the National Rural Teacher of the Year in 2014.